Donald Trump says "Obliteration is an accurate term!" for destroying Iranian nuclear sites

President Donald Trump recently threatened to destroy Pickaxe Mountain, a fortified Iranian nuclear site buried under 600 meters of granite near Natanz, which Western intelligence suspects holds an undeclared enrichment facility. The threat emerges roughly one year after Trump declared that all Iranian nuclear sites had been destroyed, a claim he made in June 2025 when he stated that “obliteration is an accurate term.” However, Pickaxe Mountain was not among the three facilities—Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan—hit in last year’s US airstrikes, and experts assess it as beyond the reach of America’s most powerful bunker-buster bombs. The site’s survival and renewed targeting raise questions about the completeness of earlier operations, while analysts note that 440 kilograms of enriched uranium may remain elsewhere in Iran, buried but potentially accessible.