Newsletters
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that retrieving Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile would require a “long and difficult process.”
“Operation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the Nuclear Dust sites in Iran,” Trump said, referring to the June 2025 strikes he ordered on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The U.S. president has repeatedly said the attacks “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program and has recently referred to the uranium stockpile as “dust.”
“Therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process,” he added.
The remarks come as preparations continue for possible high-level talks between Washington and Tehran in Pakistan.
Trump said Sunday that U.S. representatives would travel to Islamabad for negotiations, although Iran has not officially confirmed its participation and has called for the lifting of the U.S. blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan hosted the first direct high-level engagement between the United States and Iran on April 11-12, the first since diplomatic ties were severed in 1979, but the talks ended without a breakthrough.
Set as preferred source
Set as preferred source
1 min read
1 min read
