Tehran may have used the delay in the US's potential strike to make the beneath-mountain facility nearly untouchable.

The question of whether the US can destroy the Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility will partly be an intelligence race of who can outwit whom, matching offensive and defensive capabilities.

The activity comes at a time of heightened tensions as talks between Iranian and US officials continue over Iran's nuclear programme.

Recent U.S. military strikes have severely damaged Iran's nuclear program. But the regime's ambitions remain as a budding nuclear arsenal.

Iran has faced suspicion for decades over its nuclear ambitions and whether it’s developing the capability to fire an atomic weapon. It agreed to cap its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As tensions soar over Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, satellite images show activity at two Iranian nuclear sites bombed last year by Israel and the ...

U.S. strikes in June destroyed key Iranian nuclear facilities, halting enrichment and scattering debris across the sites. Satellite imagery analyzed by CSIS shows rapid underground construction at ...

President Trump indicated indirect involvement in upcoming Geneva nuclear talks with Iran, urging Tehran towards reasonableness. He referenced past B-2 bomber strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, ...

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment site on Dec. 3, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As tensions soar over Iran’s bloody ...