Iran live updates: Trump says 'movement' detected at Pickaxe Mt., threatens strikes

The Al-Masirah television channel -- controlled by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen -- reported on Thursday that Saudi Arabia struck around 40 targets across four Yemeni regions over the previous 24 hours.

Recent weeks have seen the resumption of significant fighting on Yemen's western Red Sea coast, with the Houthi rebels clashing with forces loyal to the Saudi-backed, internationally-recognized Yemeni government.

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule and Guy Davies

In his remarks during Wednesday's GOP midterm convention, President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. may strike Iran's Pickaxe Mountain, a known site for nuclear centrifuge assembly, which was not targeted in the U.S.'s initial strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

"There's another place called Pickaxe Mountain. Another nice place. We may have to give them a shot there, too, because somebody said there was a little movement at the site," Trump warned.

"We noticed there's a little activity at Pickaxe. I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard. We have no choice, right?" he added.

The president also floated naming the Strait of Hormuz after himself after claiming that oil prices would come down "as soon as we win the war with Iran."

He added, "We control the Hormuz strait. I think we should call the Hormuz strait -- we should call it the Trump -- I should get something out of it -- the Trump Strait," he said as the audience cheered.

-ABC News' Nicholas Kerr

President Donald Trump said the war will end and gas prices will come down after the midterms.

"I think the war is going to end immediately after the election. I think the war will end immediately after the election because they can't hold out any longer," he told reporters on Wednesday.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi condemned the International Atomic Energy Agency's resolution on the country's nuclear program on Wednesday, saying that the resolution is based on "fabrications" and will not achieve what its signatories intend.

"They attack Iran's nuclear facilities under safeguards, disrupt the normal verification process, and then use that very disruption as a pretext to issue a resolution at the Board of Governors," Gharibabadi wrote in a post on X.

The IAEA reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council for failure to cooperate in a long-running investigation into uranium traces detected by inspectors at various undeclared sites in Iran, according to the Associated Press.

The resolution was put forward by the U.S., Britain, France and Germany, according to the AP.