India, July 14 -- US President Trump announced Monday that the US military will target a heavily fortified underground Iranian military site known as Pickaxe Mountain, delivering an explicit warning to Tehran that Washington is prepared to escalate its campaign of retaliatory airstrikes.

"We're going to take out Pickaxe Mountain. Tell the Iranians to be ready," US President Trump said during a live interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show. The declaration marks a significant escalation in rhetoric following days of direct missile and drone exchanges between American forces and Iranian military assets in the region, signalling that the White House is prepared to strike deep inside sovereign Iranian territory to degrade its strategic capabilities...