{"id":8014,"date":"2025-09-26T08:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/?p=8014"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:06:15","slug":"8014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coatesn\/2025\/09\/26\/8014\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 \u201cSatellite images show construction under way at Iran nuclear sites hit in strikes,\u201d<\/a> BBC, 9-26-25.<\/p>\n

What?\u00a0 Another site?\u00a0 The Washington Post reports.\u00a0 \u201cThe 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 \u2014 about a mile south of the nuclear complex at Natanz, which was a target of U.S. bombing strikes on June 22.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Analysts who have monitored its construction estimate the halls under Pickaxe Mountain may be even deeper \u2014 between 260 and 330 feet \u2014 than those at Iran\u2019s Fordow facility, which U.S. warplanes struck with massive earth-penetrating bombs. The site\u2019s aboveground footprint sprawls over roughly a square mile of mountainside, with a pair of tunnel entrances on the east and west sides.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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\u2019s stockpiles of near-weapons-grade uranium.\u00a0 See \u201cAfter U.S. strikes, Iran increases work at mysterious underground site,\u201d<\/a> WPost, 9-26-25.<\/p>\n

SA won’t fall for Iran’s threats.\u00a0 “Hezbollah appeal to Saudi Arabia was spurred by Iran, sources say,\u201d<\/a> Reuters, 9-26-25.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cSaudi 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIran’s president says Trump administration is on a path that will ‘set fire’ to the Middle East,\u201d<\/a> NBC, 9-26-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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.\u201d\u00a0 See \u201cSanctions against Iran set to snap back after UN Security Council vote,\u201d<\/a> Al Jazeera, 9-26-25.<\/p>\n

25B deal for four electricity reactors.\u00a0 Bad idea.\u00a0 They have all the gas and oil they need.\u00a0 Etc.\u00a0 \u201cPutin\u2019s $25 Billion Nuclear Deal With Iran,\u201d<\/a> Newsweek, 9-26-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 \u201cSatellite images show construction under way at Iran nuclear sites hit in strikes,\u201d BBC, 9-26-25. What?\u00a0 Another site?\u00a0 The Washington … <\/p>\n

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