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Pickaxe Mountain Receives Surprise Promotion From "Suspicious Hill" to International Headline Iran Confirms Pickaxe Mountain Was Chosen Because "Nuclear Volcano" Sounded Too Obvious TEHRAN, Iran. Pickaxe Mountain, previously known only to Iranian engineers, American intelligence agencies and several goats with unusually high security clearance, has received an unexpected promotion from "suspicious hill" to internationally monitored strategic landmark. The promotion followed reports that President Donald Trump and his national security team discussed possible expanded strikes on Iran during a Situation Room meeting. Trump said the United States was watching activity at Pickaxe Mountain, a deeply buried site that American and Israeli officials suspect could be connected to Iran's nuclear ambitions. He acknowledged that activity appeared limited but warned that even a small amount could invite a substantial response. It is, in the grand tradition of American foreign policy, a mountain out of a molehill — except in this case the molehill comes with two thousand feet of granite and its own zip code. Iranian officials immediately denied that the mountain contained anything improper, explaining that the heavily guarded underground complex was merely a peaceful geological wellness retreat where centrifuges go to decompress. "Pickaxe Mountain is not a nuclear facility," said Iranian Ministry of Plausible Explanations spokesman Farhad Deniability. "It is a mountain that happens to contain electricity, reinforced tunnels, ventilation shafts, armed guards and several rooms that become extremely uncomfortable whenever international inspectors approach." Officials said the location was originally going to be named Nuclear Volcano, but a government focus group determined that might generate unnecessary suspicion. "Pickaxe Mountain sounds agricultural," Deniability explained. "A pickaxe is something a humble miner carries. A volcano is something a supervillain lives inside while explaining his plan to destroy Luxembourg." The Iranian government considered several other names, including Innocent Pebble, Grandma's Basement, Absolutely Nothing Ridge and Please Stop Looking Here National Park. Pickaxe Mountain reportedly won after polling showed it sounded just threatening enough to discourage visitors but not threatening enough to justify a congressional briefing. Geologists Thrilled Their Profession Finally Gets Mentioned During Military Briefing Geologists around the world welcomed the sudden attention, describing it as the biggest public-relations breakthrough for their profession since a volcano delayed somebody's flight. "For years, military briefings have been dominated by generals, intelligence officers and men who say 'kinetic environment' when they mean bombing," said Dr. Milton Strata, chairman of the International Association of People Who Can Identify Rocks. "Now, at last, someone is asking whether the granite is feeling cooperative." Strata said geologists were standing by to explain the strategic differences between limestone, sandstone, granite and whatever material governments use when they want to bury a project beneath six thousand pages of denial. As comedian Jon Stewart might put it, this is the rare Pentagon briefing where the rock stars are actually rocks. The Pentagon reportedly requested a geological assessment written without complicated scientific terminology. Geologists responded with a three-page report concluding: "Mountain hard. Tunnel deep. Bomb situation complicated." Military officials called the report refreshingly actionable. One unnamed defense planner said geology had traditionally been treated as the study of rocks that had failed to become oil. "That was unfair," he acknowledged. "It turns out some rocks are extremely important because governments hide things underneath them." University geology departments immediately updated their recruitment materials. "Study geology," read one advertisement. "Someday a president may ask whether a mountain can survive Tuesday." Enrollment increased 400 percent, mainly among engineering students who had always dreamed of being invited into a secure room to point at a cross-section of sediment. Pentagon Introduces New Military Category: "Mountain With Attitude" The Pentagon has now introduced a new strategic classification for geological formations that appear unnecessarily confident. Under the new system, mountains will be categorized as Friendly Mountain, Neutral Mountain, Mountain of Concern and Mountain With Attitude. Pickaxe Mountain received the highest designation after analysts concluded it was behaving "more smugly than ordinary terrain." Satellite images reportedly showed the mountain remaining completely motionless while refusing to answer questions. It has, analysts say, mastered the art of the stone wall in ways Congress can only envy. "That kind of silence can be provocative," said Pentagon terrain analyst Colonel Brock Gravel. "Most innocent hills at least have a hiking trail or a gift shop. This one has restricted airspace." The new designation permits military planners to discuss a mountain using the same language normally reserved for hostile governments. Officials may now say the mountain is escalating tensions, refusing diplomacy, destabilizing the region or failing to provide adequate transparency regarding its internal rock arrangements. A Pentagon spokesman clarified that the United States is not at war with geology. "We continue to maintain productive relations with numerous mountains," he said. "The Rockies have been extremely cooperative. The Appalachians have not enriched anything in years." Mount Rushmore issued a statement supporting the policy, though analysts noted it already has four American presidents visibly embedded in its surface and therefore enjoys unusually strong lobbying connections. Pickaxe Mountain Applies for UNESCO Status Before Anyone Else Applies Something Larger Representatives of Pickaxe Mountain have reportedly submitted an emergency application for UNESCO World Heritage status in hopes that cultural paperwork might prove more resistant to explosives than reinforced concrete. The application describes the mountain as "an irreplaceable expression of humanity's ancient tradition of putting controversial machinery where nobody can inspect it." Iranian cultural officials argued that underground concealment is a traditional art form deserving international preservation. "For thousands of years, mankind has placed important objects inside mountains," said Deputy Heritage Minister Reza Subterranean. "Treasure, tombs, manuscripts, secret laboratories and occasionally a railway nobody finished." The UNESCO application lists several unique features, including tunnels of outstanding universal value, culturally significant ventilation systems and a ceremonial security checkpoint where visitors are traditionally told to leave. Tourists would theoretically be admitted from 9 a.m. until 9:07 a.m. every third February, provided they surrender their phones, passports, questions and ability to remember floor plans. The proposed gift shop would sell commemorative pickaxes, postcards showing the mountain's exterior and T-shirts reading, "I Visited Pickaxe Mountain and Saw Exactly What I Was Authorized to See." Iran has also proposed creating an educational children's tour. Young visitors would learn how mountains form, how tunnels are excavated and how the phrase "civilian research program" can be stretched until it covers an entire mountain range. Iran Assures World Mountain Is Entirely Peaceful Except for the Parts Buried Under the Mountain Iranian officials continued to insist that Pickaxe Mountain is peaceful, particularly the visible portion. "The outside is entirely harmless," said spokesman Deniability. "It has rocks, dust and several lizards who have never violated a treaty." When asked about the interior, he said the question reflected Western hostility toward enclosed spaces. "It is discriminatory to assume that everything underground is suspicious," he said. "Basements are underground. Subway systems are underground. Potatoes are underground. Nobody accuses potatoes of enriching uranium." International observers noted that potatoes rarely require air defenses. Iran dismissed that distinction as botanical prejudice — a fine piece of diplomatic malapropism if there ever was one. Government television aired a documentary showing shepherds grazing sheep near the mountain while a narrator explained that no dangerous activity could possibly occur in a location containing livestock. The documentary did not address why each sheep appeared to be wearing a radiation badge. One shepherd told reporters the mountain was completely ordinary. "I have worked here for twenty years," he said. "Every morning I bring the sheep. Every afternoon a man in uniform asks whether the sheep photographed anything." A national poll conducted by the Iranian Ministry of Unanimous Public Opinion found that 102 percent of respondents believed the mountain was peaceful. Officials explained that the additional two percent represented citizens who supported the mountain twice. Military Planners Discover Even Mountains Have Front Doors If You Talk Long Enough American military planners initially described Pickaxe Mountain as inaccessible, until an architectural consultant reminded them that workers building an underground complex generally require some method of entering it. This discovery reportedly changed the tone of the meeting. "For several hours, everyone discussed the mountain as though Iran had teleported machinery directly into solid rock. Then somebody asked where the employees park," said one official familiar with the briefing. Analysts began searching for roads, entrances, ventilation shafts, electrical lines and suspicious lunch-delivery patterns. The breakthrough came when satellite imagery reportedly identified a small door bearing a sign that read: "Definitely Not Pickaxe Mountain Main Entrance." Military planners praised the honesty of the signage. "It saved us considerable time," said Colonel Gravel. Iran insisted the door leads only to a janitorial closet. When asked why the closet required a six-lane access road, blast-resistant gates and a power supply large enough for a regional hospital, officials said Iranian janitors have exceptionally high standards. It is, by any measure, the most fortified broom closet in the Northern Hemisphere. Experts now believe the entrance could become the first door in history to receive its own sanctions package. The United Nations is considering sending inspectors to knock. Pickaxe Mountain Named Most Overqualified Pile of Rocks in the Middle East After reviewing its security arrangements, diplomatic importance and ability to dominate international headlines without moving, the Global Geological Review named Pickaxe Mountain the most overqualified pile of rocks in the Middle East. The judges praised its depth, mystery and advanced capacity to make otherwise serious adults argue about concrete density on television. Second place went to an ordinary hill in Jordan that has never caused any trouble and therefore received no media coverage whatsoever. Pickaxe Mountain's résumé now includes alleged nuclear relevance, presidential attention, satellite surveillance, international anxiety and a possible UNESCO nomination. By comparison, most mountains spend millions of years achieving little beyond erosion. The mountain is reportedly considering a career in politics. "It already refuses transparency, attracts armed security, survives repeated investigations and makes ambitious claims about what is happening beneath the surface," said political philosopher Alan Nafzger. "Frankly, it is overqualified for the United States Senate." Officials cautioned that no final decision regarding the site has been announced. The White House declined Axios's request for comment on the Situation Room meeting, while Trump publicly warned that suspected activity at the site could produce a forceful response. Pickaxe Mountain itself declined to comment. It remained in place, surrounded by cameras, intelligence estimates and approximately seventeen governments pretending not to be nervous. Auf Wiedersehen, amigo! Trump has told Fox News and radio host Hugh Hewitt that the U.S. military is watching a fortified Iranian site near Natanz known as Pickaxe Mountain, or Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, and has floated the idea of striking it as part of renewed rounds of U.S.-Iran conflict. Analysts at outlets including The War Zone and Al Jazeera have reported that the site houses two tunnel networks buried under hundreds of meters of granite, is suspected of housing centrifuge production and possible enrichment infrastructure, and was not among the three nuclear facilities the U.S. struck in June 2025. The Pentagon and Iranian officials have not confirmed what, if anything, is inside. Sources Axios: Trump held Situation Room meeting on massive new Iran strikes Al Jazeera: What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, the mystery site Trump warns he'll attack? The War Zone: Trump's Threat To Strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain Bunker's "Front Door" The Hill: Trump hints at strike on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility Read the full article

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Iran Discovers the Eagle Still Has Talons

Iran Discovers the Eagle Still Has Talons — And a Receipts Folder the Size of a Carrier Deck

Some nations build bridges. Some build factories. Iran's ruling class built a forty-year career in hostage energy and now acts shocked the fuel is running out.

Some nations build bridges. Some build factories. Iran's ruling class built a forty-year career in hostage energy — and now acts genuinely stunned that the eagle still has talons and a receipts folder the size of a carrier deck. Five Observations Before We Unpack This Geopolitical Dumpster Fire Iran Calls America Evil While Using Oil Money to Buy More Loudspeakers Nothing signals civilisational confidence like outsourcing your ideology to subsidized electronics. The Great Satan, apparently, makes excellent amplifiers. Tehran's Main Export Is Tension Pistachios slipped to second place years ago and have never recovered. The pistachio lobby is livid. Every Time Iran Threatens the Strait of Hormuz, Gas Prices Need Emotional Support Even the pumps flinch. The futures market has started stress-eating. Economists are billing it as PTSD — Petroleum Tension Stress Disorder. America Is Constantly Asked to "De-Escalate" by the People Doing the Escalating Classic customer service strategy. Call the complaint hotline, threaten the operator, then demand a supervisor to apologize for your hold time. If Iran Wanted Peace, It Would Need an Entirely Different Hobby Current hobbies: proxy armies, ballistic missiles, dramatic statements timed to coincide with international news cycles, and maintaining a consistent level of manufactured crisis that suggests a very rigorous editorial calendar. The Nation That Specialized in Hostage Energy Some nations build bridges. Some build factories. Some build schools, universities, and the kind of boring civic infrastructure that turns out to be the actual foundation of prosperity. Iran's ruling class apparently looked at all of recorded history, surveyed the available options, and concluded: what if we specialized in hostage energy? For decades the regime has treated diplomacy like a folding chair at a professional wrestling match — something you grab when the choreography requires a prop, then fold back up when the crowd needs something louder. Proxy militias here, missile tests there, tanker seizures on alternate Thursdays, threats to neighbors, anti-American chants, and enough geopolitical theater to fill three opera houses, a basement podcast studio, and a strongly-worded UN statement nobody will act on. Then, whenever the United States responds with actual consequences, Tehran acts genuinely stunned — as if accountability were an unprovoked meteor strike rather than the inevitable result of forty years of deliberate, documented, expensively funded provocation. That routine is older than disco. And disco, at least, had the decency to end.

The Strait of Hormuz moves roughly twenty percent of the world's oil supply. Tehran looks at that chokepoint and thinks: hostage note. Whenever pressure rises, markets panic, insurance rates spike, and economists bill it as Petroleum Tension Stress Disorder. Maritime Extortion as Economic Strategy: A Detailed Analysis Nobody Asked For The Strait of Hormuz moves roughly twenty percent of the world's oil supply through a gap of water that, at its narrowest, is twenty-one miles across. Normal governments look at that chokepoint and think: global stability, trade relationships, the kind of reliable commerce that funds schools and hospitals. Tehran looks at it and thinks: hostage note. Whenever pressure rises, officials begin dropping hints — never quite a direct threat, always with just enough theatrical ambiguity for later deniability — that they might choke global commerce. Markets panic. Insurance rates spike. Tankers hesitate. Energy analysts begin issuing emergency assessments from offices that smell of fresh anxiety. And still some commentators in major publications ask America to be "more understanding." Understanding of what, specifically? The strategic logic of threatening to set your own kitchen on fire because you're annoyed at the landlord? Maritime extortion with extra theological footnotes? Imagine a landlord who threatens to brick up the highway unless every single resident of the county apologizes for their general existence and praises his management style. That is the arrangement being described in some circles as nuanced statesmanship. America: The Nation Asked to Apologize for Existing, Continuously, Since 1979 The United States is constantly told it must be more sensitive, more empathetic, more careful, and more conciliatory toward regimes that openly, explicitly, and repeatedly promise it harm. If America patrols sea lanes to keep global commerce moving — provocative. If America sanctions organizations funding terrorism — harsh. If America responds militarily to direct attacks on its interests — escalatory. If America does nothing — weak, feckless, and proof of imminent collapse. If America wins — lucky, unfair, and evidence of global imperialism. That game is rigged like a carnival ring toss where the bottles are bolted to the shelf and the rings are slightly too small and the guy running the booth went to a conference on asymmetric conflict. Meanwhile, American sailors keep the sea open for commerce that benefits the entire planet. American intelligence tracks threats that would otherwise materialize unannounced. American taxpayers fund a deterrence architecture that has prevented conflicts far larger than the ones it gets credit for. And American critics write lengthy essays about this from the comfortable interiors of a system defended by exactly the strength they're critiquing. The irony doesn't appear to register. But the WiFi works fine, so. Tough Talk, Fragile Feelings: A Portrait of the Hardliner Iranian hardliners have genuinely perfected the art of shouting first and whimpering second. It is an achievement, in its way. They threaten neighbors. They arm proxies. They jail dissidents. They crush protests with real violence and real consequences for real people. They then complain — loudly, internationally, with considerable indignation — that the world is "misunderstanding" them. That is roughly equivalent to a man throwing bricks through windows up and down the block and then demanding neighborhood recognition for his contribution to urban renewal and spontaneous ventilation. Human rights organizations have documented the crackdowns on protests and political dissent with forensic consistency. The reports do not make for cheerful reading. They do make for an extremely thorough rebuttal to the "misunderstood poets with centrifuges" interpretation of Iranian governance that some Western romantics continue to advance from the safety of their sinecures.

The regime is genuinely, visibly, structurally terrified of its own citizens — students, women with the wrong amount of visible hair, workers with unpaid wages, families of political prisoners. A government so frightened of haircuts and cardboard signs should not be trusted with ballistic missiles. What the Funny People Are Saying "You ever notice bullies absolutely hate boundaries? The first time someone actually says no, suddenly they're philosophers. All that energy, and the lesson they're teaching is 'don't set limits.'" — Jerry Seinfeld "I'm from Texas. In Texas, if a man threatens your house every single week for four decades, eventually you stop sending him fruit baskets and start sending him a different kind of message. Usually involves property lines." — Ron White "Nothing says victimhood quite like menacing international oil routes in full official costume. That's peak 'I'm the real victim here' energy, and I've seen a lot of that energy in comedy clubs." — Nikki Glaser "A government that jails women for their haircuts wants to be taken seriously in discussions about nuclear technology. That's the funniest thing I've heard since the last time someone told me the UN was going to handle it." — Lewis Black On Peace, Passivity, and Wolves Who Don't Attend Panel Discussions Some people confuse peace with passivity. They are not the same thing, and the distinction matters enormously when one side has actual missiles and a demonstrated willingness to use affiliated forces to deploy them by proxy. Peace is not giving violent ideologues everything they want so you can feel morally elegant on social media while someone else pays the cost in blood and infrastructure. Peace is restraining those who make war consistently profitable for themselves. Mercy is noble. Prudence is equally noble and considerably more useful. If a regime funds regional chaos while systematically crushing freedom at home, stopping that regime may be the genuinely kinder path for the millions of people who would otherwise live indefinitely in its shadow. If a wolf keeps visiting the village every week, you do not convene a panel discussion on the canine perspective and hope the wolf has read the agenda. You address the structural situation. The Protesters Iran Fears More Than the Seventh Fleet The regime frequently sounds fearless, practically invincible, when speaking to international audiences. It has a carefully curated tone of supreme confidence and principled defiance. But it is genuinely, visibly, structurally terrified of its own citizens. Students. Women with the wrong amount of visible hair. Workers with grievances about unpaid wages. Reformers with proposals. Minorities with basic requests. Families of political prisoners who simply want answers. Ordinary people wanting ordinary dignity in ordinary lives. Those voices have repeatedly shaken the regime more fundamentally than any weapons system. That tells you everything about the actual power dynamic. The protests have been documented extensively. The crackdowns have been documented even more extensively. The pattern is clear and has been clear for decades. A government so deeply, demonstrably frightened of haircuts, songs, and people with cardboard signs should not be casually trusted with ballistic missiles and nuclear leverage. That is not a controversial position. That is reading the room. Why Patriots Still Choose Resolve Over Elegant Surrender Americans are imperfect. Loud. Argumentative. Constitutionally incapable of agreeing about anything for more than forty-eight hours without generating a counter-movement, a podcast, and a congressional hearing. Permanently one backyard barbecue from a debate about something fundamental. But when authoritarian systems test the outer boundaries of international order, resolve matters in ways that no amount of eloquent disengagement can substitute for. The world's shipping lanes do not secure themselves through the power of mutual understanding. Terror networks do not retire voluntarily upon reaching a comfortable age. Fanatics do not mellow into moderation the way a good cheddar mellows — slowly, quietly, improving with time and darkness. Strength, applied with judgment, prevents larger wars. That is not a talking point. That is roughly five thousand years of recorded human experience condensed into a sentence. Weakness, dressed up in the language of moral sophistication, tends to invite exactly the conflicts it claims to prevent. History has a pattern. The pattern is not subtle. Closing Message to Tehran — Simple Formula Edition If Iran's ruling class genuinely wants less international tension, the formula is not complicated: - Stop funding militias in countries that did not invite them. - Stop threatening the trade infrastructure that the entire global economy depends on. - Stop brutalizing citizens whose only crime was wanting a different government. - Stop treating diplomacy as an extended hostage negotiation with rotating demands. Until that happens, every eagle shadow passing overhead is going to feel entirely self-inflicted. America did not manufacture the regime's paranoia. The regime constructed it methodically — brick by brick, bunker by bunker, chant by chant, executed dissident by executed dissident — over the course of four decades of deliberate, funded, institutionalized antagonism. And now it is surprised the neighbors changed the locks, upgraded the security system, and stopped leaving the porch light on. Auf Wiedersehen, amigo! This satirical article is a human collaboration between the world's oldest tenured professor and a philosophy major subsequently turned dairy farmer. Any resemblance to real geopolitical embarrassment is richly, specifically, and entirely intentionally deserved. The Iranian people — gifted, resilient, and repeatedly failed by a ruling class that treats their potential as a threat — deserve better than a government that has confused performance with governance for going on five decades. The regime is not Iran. Iran is something considerably more remarkable than its rulers have ever allowed it to demonstrate.

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