Trump vows US will retrieve uranium from Iran
President Trump has stated that the U.S. will recover Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium. He emphasized that the U.S. does not want the uranium and may destroy it after retrieval. This effort is part of Trump's broader strategy to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
- ▪Trump asserted that the U.S. will eventually retrieve Iran's highly enriched uranium stockpile.
- ▪Iran reportedly possesses about 900 pounds of this uranium, which was buried following U.S. and Israeli airstrikes.
- ▪Iran's Supreme Leader has directed that the uranium should not be sent abroad.
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule, in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, in Washington. AP-YonhapWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump vowed on Thursday that the United States will eventually recover Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium despite comments from Iran that it will not hand over the material."We will get it. We don't need it, we don't want it. We'll probably destroy it after we get it, but we're not going to let them have it," Trump told reporters at the White House. Iran is believed to possess about 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium, which Trump says was buried by U.S.
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