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Inside Iran's Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Facility
Deep inside Iran's Kuh-e-Dasht mountain range lies the Shahid Alimohammadi site — better known to intelligence analysts as Pickaxe Mountain. Unlike the declared enrichment facility at Natanz, this purpose-built breakout facility was designed to be invisible. IAEA inspectors have been denied access, satellite imagery reveals chambers at up to 100 meters deep, and some analysts suspect chambers reaching 200 meters. With over 1,000 IR-6 centrifuges potentially inside, the breakout timeline to weapons-grade uranium has compressed from 12 months under the JCPOA to just 2-3 weeks. This episode…
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