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Trump Says U.S. Will Strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain Soon

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President Trump said the United States would strike the area around Iran's Pickaxe Mountain "pretty soon" and "very heavily," speaking alongside Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House. He described the fortified underground site near Natanz as connected to Iran's nuclear program. Asked about reports that Iran moved centrifuges there, Trump said centrifuges do not matter without nuclear material and that Washington follows the material. He said the United States was not leaving the Iran campaign yet and claimed prior American operations had set Tehran's nuclear ambitions back by 20 to 25 years.

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