U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday (September 4) that the United States may hit Iran's Pickaxe Mountain very soon, Reuters reports.
"Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. We've stopped them from having. We may hit Pickaxe (mountain) very soon because if there was anything going on with Pickaxe. Well, I tell you what, a lot of people don't call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it's small potatoes for us. It's not a big thing. We did Venezuela and we did this. In Venezuela we lost nobody. In this we lost 18 people. In Vietnam, you lost 100,000 people. And in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people. I would say that it's intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes. So I what he said. And it was interesting because I think that there's a lot of truth that we're not fighting right now. There's no fighting. We're taking out a lot of oil. We control the Hormuz Strait and we control it very strongly," Trump stated.
Pickaxe Mountain, located near Iran's heavily damaged Natanz uranium enrichment facility, is a heavily fortified site that hosts two deeply buried tunnel complexes.
Trump also expressed satisfaction that Beijing is not interfering in the Iranian crisis at his request. Trump announced that he will soon receive Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In conclusion, Trump stated that he does not yet know when the war will end, but he would like to reach a resolution that would no longer bother the next administration.
In recent days, the United States and Iran have resumed mutual strikes. There are rumors that the Iranian side has again launched missiles at American facilities in Jordan. According to the authorities, the air defense forces managed to neutralize them.
