Pickaxe Mountain: Iran’s lesser-known underground nuclear facility, deeper than Fordow

Pickaxe Mountain: Iran’s lesser-known underground nuclear facility, deeper than Fordow

Among the Iranian nuclear facilities the U.S. reportedly targeted in Saturday’s attack was the Pickaxe Mountain Facility. Iran has not acknowledged the site’s development or construction and it has retained a lower public profile, with the Institute for Science and International Security first discovering its existence in 2023. The facility, just south of the Natanz nuclear facility and buried roughly 330 feet below the mountain itself, was part…