Trump promises US will recover enriched uranium from Iran

President Donald Trump promised this Thursday (21) that the United States will recover Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium, despite the Middle Eastern country saying it will not hand over the material.

"We're going to get it. We don't need it, we don't want it. We're probably going to destroy it after we get it, but we're not going to let them have it," Trump told reporters at the White House.

Iran is believed to possess about 400 kg of highly enriched uranium, which the president says was buried by US and Israeli airstrikes almost a year ago.

Recovering uranium is part of Trump's central objective in his war against Iran, which is not to allow Tehran to develop a nuclear weapon.

Iran's supreme leader has issued a directive that the country's uranium of near weapons-grade purity should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian sources told Reuters.

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Source: CNN