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Iran expands secret underground site after nuclear strikes - Washington Post

Sep 26, 2025, 12:15 GMT+1

Iran has accelerated construction at a little-understood underground complex near Natanz months after US and Israeli forces bombed its main nuclear facilities, The Washington Post reported Friday.

"Analysts who have monitored its construction estimate the halls under Pickaxe Mountain may be even deeper — between 260 and 330 feet — than those at Iran’s Fordow facility, which U.S. warplanes struck with massive earth-penetrating bombs," wrote the outlet on Friday.

The complex, known as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La or Pickaxe Mountain, sits about a mile south of Natanz.

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