US President Donald Trump told Reuters today that the US will work with Iran to remove its enriched uranium to its territory, BTA reports.
“We will take it together. We will go to Iran and slowly start digging it up with big machines... We will take it back to the United States“, Trump said during a telephone interview.
He spoke of “nuclear dust“ and added that the material would be collected “very soon“. The “nuclear dust“ mentioned by Trump is what he says is left after the US and Iran bombed Iranian nuclear facilities in June last year.
Iran is believed to have more than 400 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60% purity. Iran's nuclear program is one of the most sensitive issues in US-Iranian negotiations.
Trump said the main reason for the war was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran claims that uranium enrichment - a process that produces nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants and nuclear warheads depending on its duration - is only for peaceful purposes.
Trump also said that the US would maintain a naval blockade of Iran until the agreement is concluded.
„I think the deal will happen very quickly. "We get along very well with Iran," he said.
Trump said additional talks were needed to reach an agreement and that they would take place "maybe over the weekend." He suggested he might travel to Islamabad after the deal was struck.
The president said the United States was working with Iran to remove mines from the Strait of Hormuz.
In response to a report that the United States was considering a $20 billion uranium deal with Iran, Trump said "no money is going to change hands."