Bushehr sits on Iran’s Persian Gulf coast and houses the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. It features in security and regional power dynamics amid US-Iran tensions and broader strategic calculations.
President Donald Trump has said the United States will soon target Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply buried complex near Iran’s Natanz enrichment site. The mountain has remained off-limits to inspectors while satellite analysis shows continued excavation and hardened tunnel entrances; experts say the site could house centrifuge assembly or future enrichment deep underground.