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Trump again claims that US may soon hit Iran’s Pickaxe mountain nuclear site
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US President Donald Trump again claims that the US may soon hit Iran’s Pickaxe mountain nuclear site.
“We may hit Pickaxe Mountain very soon… if there is anything going on with Pickaxe,” Trump tells reporters in the Oval Office.
Trump has been threatening to strike Pickaxe for months, declaring already in July that the US may do so soon.
Speaking about the Iran conflict, Trump says, “A lot of people don’t call it a war. I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us.”
Hours earlier, Trump called the conflict a “war” in a Truth Social post.
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