Lest there be any doubt the Regime has not learned any lessons from the 12 Day War, nor the U.S. nuclear strikes, and that the Ayatollah and the government refuse to become a normal state. “Satellite images show construction under way at Iran nuclear sites hit in strikes,” BBC, 9-26-25.
What? Another site? The Washington Post reports. “The ongoing work is at a site known as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, or Pickaxe Mountain, where since 2020 Iranian engineers have been tunneling deep into the Zagros mountain range — about a mile south of the nuclear complex at Natanz, which was a target of U.S. bombing strikes on June 22. The purpose of Pickaxe Mountain remains unclear. International nuclear inspectors have never visited and Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tehran rebuffed his questions about the site earlier this year. 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. The site’s aboveground footprint sprawls over roughly a square mile of mountainside, with a pair of tunnel entrances on the east and west sides. Iran said in 2020, when it announced plans for the facility, that it would house a production plant for assembling centrifuges, fast-spinning machines for enriching uranium, replacing a site destroyed earlier that year in what Tehran called an act of sabotage. Construction on the tunnels began that December, according to an analyst at the satellite firm Maxar. But its dimensions and depth have generated suspicions among analysts that it is intended for other purposes, either as a covert uranium enrichment facility or a secure storage site for Iran’s stockpiles of near-weapons-grade uranium. See “After U.S. strikes, Iran increases work at mysterious underground site,” WPost, 9-26-25.
SA won’t fall for Iran’s threats. “Hezbollah appeal to Saudi Arabia was spurred by Iran, sources say,” Reuters, 9-26-25. “Saudi Arabia, a Sunni power that has long regarded Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation that exercises undue influence over Lebanon on Iran’s behalf, has consistently backed disarmament [in Lebanon] and has shown no signs of changing course since Qassem’s appeal.”
“Iran’s president says Trump administration is on a path that will ‘set fire’ to the Middle East,” NBC, 9-26-25.
“The United Nations Security Council has voted against a resolution drafted by Russia and China to delay by six months the reimposition of sanctions on Iran.” See “Sanctions against Iran set to snap back after UN Security Council vote,” Al Jazeera, 9-26-25.
25B deal for four electricity reactors. Bad idea. They have all the gas and oil they need. Etc. “Putin’s $25 Billion Nuclear Deal With Iran,” Newsweek, 9-26-25.