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Trump says US may target Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain ‘very soon’
US President Donald Trump has repeated an earlier warning that the US may attack Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “very soon”.
![An injured person in a hospital following a US attack on a telecommunications tower in Kuhestak, in Minab, Iran, September 4, 2026. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/2026-09-04T190329Z_1939706523_RC2DCNA4V8ZU_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-USA-STRIKES-SIRIK-1788549938.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2025-05-26T093720Z_1564499364_RC2KPEAT19ZX_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-ALAQSA-BEN-GVIR-1788198474.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, August 28, 2026. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-28T125017Z_430861520_RC2I7NAOVQB7_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-HORMUZ-1787952814.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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WATCH: War on Iran puts US relations with UN under strain
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![Israeli forces raid the Qalandiya Training Center belonging to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) north of East Jerusalem. [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/AA-20260825-42303270-42303265-ISRAELI_FORCES_RAID_UNRWAS_KALENDIYA_EDUCATION_CENTER_IN_EAST_JERUSALEM-1787665783.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![People gather on the beach, as vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, August 25, 2026. [Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/2026-08-25T111240Z_2136989212_RC2J5NAAYWGP_RTRMADP_3_IRAN-CRISIS-HORMUZ-1787691077.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![Suha and Hussein Abu Khdeir, parents of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, stand for a portrait alongside their grandchild Azzedine, in the living room of their house in Shuafat neighbourhood of Occupied East Jerusalem. Mohammed was kidnapped outside his home and murdered by Israeli Jewish citizens on July 2nd 2014 [Lucien Lung/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/RAMI_ABU_KHDEIR_01-1787333543.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
