US and Tehran will dig up nuclear material buried in Iran, says Trump

US President Donald Trump said Tehran has agreed to allow the US into Iran to dig up nuclear material, in coordination with Iranian authorities, once the conflict ends.

"It's very, very difficult to get there... but, even so, I want to get there," said the president this Wednesday (3), at a press conference at the White House. Trump said the US and China are probably "the only two countries that have the equipment to do this. So, yes, I want to get there."

Trump also acknowledged that Iranian officials have "changed their minds a few times, but as it stands now, we will enter at some point in the not-too-distant future."

"It's very safe down there," he said of the places where nuclear material is buried.

"You know, we in the Space Force have cameras. Every angle... of these three sites is being monitored all the time. If anyone goes there, we'll see exactly what's going on and blow it up even more," he said, referring to the three sites the US targeted last year: the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear complexes.

Trump said efforts to recover the materials will only happen after the conflict ends.

"And I don't want to do that if we're in conflict, I don't want to put men in that kind of danger," he said.

"I remember Jimmy Carter had some serious problems in Iran with the hostages. I don't ever want to put our people in that kind of danger. But when it's all over, as of this moment, it's agreed that we will go with them, recover the material and destroy it. It will be destroyed," Trump concluded.

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Source: CNN