Trump Floats Front-Door Strike on Iran’s Deeply Buried Pickaxe Mountain

Trump suggested a strike on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply buried facility near Natanz tied to Tehran’s nuclear program, highlighting the real difficulty of destroying such hardened tunnels. The piece explains the limits of existing bunker-busting weapons like the GBU-57/MOP, the challenge posed by two underground tunnel networks, and the high risks and uncertain effectiveness of any attack, while noting that improved intelligence, surveillance, and potential follow-on or ground options remain controversial and uncertain.