President Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office (September 4, 2026)
President Trump on Friday again signaled that Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain could be hit by US forces “very soon,” suggesting that the US is surveilling the site near the Natanz nuclear complex for nuclear enrichment activity.
Israeli intelligence claims that Iran has been rebuilding their nuclear program since last fall at the site.
ABC’s Rachel Scott asked Trump about Vice President JD Vance’s comments a day earlier, where he said, “I wouldn’t call it a war. Right now, there is no active shooting,” and instead referred to it as a “conflict.”
“Can you explain to the American people if this is not a war? What exactly is it?” Scott said. President Trump responded, “I call it a military conflict because it’s small potatoes for us; it’s not a big thing,” likening the combat to the January 3 Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela, which lasted about one hour.
“We did Venezuela, and we did this. In Venezuela, we lost nobody; in this, we lost 18 people. And in Vietnam, we lost 100,000 people, and in other conflicts, you lost tens of thousands of people. I would say that it’s intermittent. You know, we do intermittent strikes,” he said.
“We’re not fighting right now. There’s no fighting. We’re taking out a lot of oil. We control the Hormuz Strait. We control it very strongly. We did a hit on certain areas around the Hormuz Strait. We took out their radar, as you know —you know that very well —we took out some aircraft, we took out some other things that protect for them, used to protect the Hormuz Strait.”
Scott then pressed Trump on the 18 dead service members since the start of the war and claimed that “we’re seeing record-long deployments,” pointing to the deployment of special forces, but the President fired back, asking, “Why is it record long?” and “How long were we in Vietnam?”
“We’re in five months now, and you know what we did in five months? They’re not going to have a nuclear weapon. That’s what we did. Iran will not have a nuclear weapon because if they did, you probably wouldn’t be standing here very long,” Trump continued.
“Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. We’ve stopped them from having. We may hit pickaxe very soon,” he added, noting that the US is now leading in space technology, and “We know everybody that’s moving at pickaxe.”
“We know everybody that’s moving everywhere, all over Iran, and if anything goes bad, we hit them. We hit them hard.”
“In Vietnam, we lost tens of thousands of people. In Afghanistan, we lost a lot. Sleepy Joe Biden lost 13 just by standing at an airport, an airport that they shouldn’t have been in because they should have used Bagram, not the local little airport right in the middle of a city. They lost 13, but they lost 78 people in terms of their arms, their legs, their face was just wiped out,” the President added, referencing the Kabul Airport disaster under Biden. “You don’t mention that. You don’t mention that”
WATCH:
Trump previously threatened in July to attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, where Iran has been rebuilding their nuclear program since last fall, according to Israeli intelligence.
“We’ll be hitting that area very, probably pretty soon. And there’s not a thing they can do about it, and there’s not a thing they can do about it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
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