Middle East crisis live: US renews strikes on Iran as Trump threatens to attack nuclear site ‘very heavily’

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, posted on X on Wednesday that there is no nuclear activity at Kolang Kouh, otherwise known as Pickaxe Mountain.

“The repeated US attacks and threats against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities not only constitute a flagrant violation of the core principles of the UN Charter, international law, and the relevant resolutions of the IAEA board of governors, general conference, and UN Security Council, but also reveal the United States’ deep-rooted enmity toward Iran’s scientific progress and technological development,” Baghaei wrote on X.

“Iran’s nuclear activities have been fully declared to the IAEA in accordance with its safeguards obligations. Washington’s obsessive focus on Kolang Kouh where no nuclear activity is taking place is nothing more than a fabricated pretext for aggression, destruction, and sabotage.”

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