‘Frustrated’ Donald Trump has rebuked Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ahead of their Oval office meeting.
The US President expressed his frustration with the Israeli counterpart for telling reporters that he would present Trump with evidence that Iran is still developing its nuclear program at the site, known as Pickaxe Mountain.
‘Well, I don’t need Bibi to tell me that. Bibi is telling me that because he wants me to stay involved,’ Trump told Fox News.
Trump then warned Netanyahu not to air grievances in public and to raise them with him privately instead.
‘I heard BB announce that. I said, “Why didn’t you just tell it to me? Why do you have to announce it to the world?”‘
Trump also came out big as he vowed to destroy the secret facility if Iran did not agree to make a deal to abandon their nuclear program and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
‘I know exactly what’s going on at Pickaxe. It’s not a big problem. We took out their nuclear site, and we’ll have to take out Pickaxe if we don’t make a deal,’ Trump added.
Pickaxe Mountain, known in Farsi as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, is a tunnel complex Iran has been carving into a mountainside near its Natanz enrichment site.
It is buried so deep that weapons experts doubt even America’s most powerful bunker-buster could reach it.
