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Trump says America might bomb Iran's underground Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site

Trump says America might bomb Iran's underground Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site

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The heavily guarded bunker sits deep beneath rock near one of Tehran's main atomic facilities. Speaking to American broadcaster Newsmax on Thursday night, Donald Trump ruled out using nuclear weapons or sending ground troops into the conflict that started in February with joint US-Israeli strikes. He declined to say whether he had cleared using the non-nuclear GBU-43/B, known as the "mother of all bombs".

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