When the (nuclear) dust settles, President Donald Trump says it will not be in Iranian hands.
“The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably … destroyed in place,” Trump wrote Monday onTruth Social.
Trump said the preferred option is that “in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the material would be “destroyed in place or, at another acceptable location, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event.”
Iran has about 970 pounds of enriched uranium, according to theAssociated Press.
Much of what Iran has is hard to reach because it was buried underneath rubble when the U.S. attacked Iranian nuclear facilities last June.
That has led some commentators to speculate that the only sure way to keep the enriched uranium out of Iranian hands is to have U.S. troops on the ground in Iran to either retrieve the uranium or oversee the process.
“No one has given me a briefing on how you would do it without boots on the ground,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has said. “It doesn’t mean you can’t. But no one’s ever briefed me about it.”
Complicating the issue is that Iran has issued statements in the past suggesting the uranium is not going anywhere.
“The Supreme Leader’s directive, and the consensus within the establishment, is that the stockpile of enriched uranium should not leave the country,”Reutersquoted one Iranian source as saying.
Iran’s fear is that sending the uranium outside the country would make Iran more vulnerable to an attack from Israel, which has taken the position that the war is not over as long as Iran has the uranium.
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