Overview
- In a Fox News interview, President Trump said the push to recover Iran’s highly enriched uranium is mostly for public relations, though he said he would rather the United States hold it.
- He said U.S. surveillance watches the bombed nuclear sites nonstop with nine cameras on three locations and claimed no one has approached the material, which is believed buried under rubble.
- Trump raised the option of ordering another strike on the sites to keep the stockpile out of reach.
- Negotiators have struggled as Washington and Israel seek to ship the uranium out and dismantle parts of Iran’s program, while Tehran rejects surrendering enrichment, and Trump said Iran agreed and then withdrew in talks.
- Israel has made removal a condition for ending the conflict, with Benjamin Netanyahu saying it is not over, and reports put about 434kg remaining that would take weeks to extract.