Why Tucker Carlson Isn’t All Wrong on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain

Newsweek · Matthew Tostevin · 2026-11-03 13:56 UTC

Tucker Carlson may be right that only a nuclear device could completely destroy Iran's buried Pickaxe Mountain facilities.

Disinformation always has its place on the continuum of war and diplomacy so it’s hard to tell how seriously to take the latest U.S. threats to Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain.

Whether or not they are more aimed at pushing the reluctant Islamic Republic to a deal, they nonetheless highlight the importance of the facility, which conservative commentator Tucker Carlson has suggested could be a target for a nuclear attack. It also underlines why it is so difficult for President Donald Trump to bring the war to any sort of end in which it can genuinely be said that Iran no longer poses a nuclear weapons threat.

Trump said U.S. forces might have to “go after” the site near the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility and that it would be no “big deal”.

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