Donald Trump asserted on Friday that the enriched uranium stockpiled by Iran would be “brought back to the United States” shortly, shortly after stating that an agreement with Tehran was very close to ending the war.
“We will go together with Iran” to retrieve the enriched uranium, he said at an event organized by the conservative organization Turning Point in Arizona, before adding: “We will go get it, we will bring it back to the United States shortly.”
The statements by the American president come after those of the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman who had previously stated that Iran’s enriched uranium stocks would not go “anywhere.”
But for Donald Trump, the United States will recover “nuclear dust” with the help of “a lot of excavators.”
“We are going to need the biggest excavators you can imagine,” said the American president in front of a crowd of supporters.
Donald Trump uses the term “nuclear dust” to refer to both Iran’s enriched uranium stocks and sometimes to refer to nuclear material buried during American strikes on Iran in June 2025.
The American president seemed increasingly optimistic on Friday about the chances of an agreement with Tehran, stating during a call with AFP that there were no more “sticking points” and that such an agreement was “very close.”
AFP
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