US President Donald Trump says recovering uranium from Iran will be a long and difficult process following last year’s strikes on its nuclear sites.
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has stated that the process for the United States to obtain uranium from Iran will be long and difficult in the aftermath of last year’s strikes on Tehran’s nuclear sites.
Trump declared on his Truth Social platform that Operation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the Nuclear Dust sites in Iran.
He added that therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process.
The US leader regularly uses the term nuclear dust to refer to Iran’s stock of enriched uranium, which the United States accuses Iran of hoarding to make an atomic bomb.
He has also sometimes used it to refer to material left from US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities last June.
The 79-year-old president maintains Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium would ultimately be transferred to US territory, despite Iran’s foreign ministry denying any such plans.
The United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran to remove what Israel described as the existential threat posed by the Islamic republic’s nuclear program.
Israeli officials say Tehran had stepped up efforts to acquire an atomic weapon since the end of the 12-day war last June, which was launched by Israel and included US bombings of three nuclear facilities.
