Extracting enriched uranium in Iran to be lengthy process - Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump said extracting enriched uranium from the underground at Iranian nuclear sites targeted in the summer of 2025 will take a long time.
U.S. President Donald Trump said extracting enriched uranium from the underground at Iranian nuclear sites targeted in the summer of 2025 will take a long time.
Contrary to the statements of U.S. President Donald Trump, the Iranian authorities did not agree to halt their uranium enrichment program and will never do so, CNN reported, citing sources.
Sending Iran's enriched uranium to the United States has never been under consideration, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said.
The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says that “very detailed” measures to verify Iran’s nuclear activities must be included in a potential U.S.-Iran agreement to end their war in the Middle East.
Moscow expresses its willingness to contribute to solving the issue around Iran’s enriched uranium stocks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said following an official visit to China.
At the talks between Iran and the United States in Islamabad, Tehran proposed to pause uranium enrichment for a period of up to five years, The New York Times reported, citing Iranian and U.S. officials.
The U.S. military has briefed President Donald Trump on a highly complex special operations plan to extract nearly 454 kg of highly enriched uranium buried deep inside Iran, the Washington Post reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a military operation to extract uranium from Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Tehran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium remains under the rubble of the sites attacked last June by the U.S. and Israel.
Iran has indicated it is prepared to make concessions on its nuclear programme in talks with the U.S. in return for the lifting of sanctions and recognition of its right to enrich uranium, as it seeks to avert a U.S. attack.
The United States is considering the possibility of assassinating Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his son, Axios reported, citing sources.
Iran indicated willingness to freeze nuclear material production for up to ten years during negotiations in Geneva, but firmly rejected ending uranium enrichment altogether, The New York Times reported, citing sources.
Russia is among the countries to which Iran is willing to transfer part of its highly enriched uranium stockpiles
Esmaeil Baghaei affirmed Iran's willingness to engage in discussions regarding the extent of uranium enrichment. He emphasized that the Islamic Republic is considerably distant from developing nuclear weapons.
Iran is not discussing a complete halt to uranium enrichment in its talks with the United States in Oman, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a speech marking the 47th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution that his country is prepared for "any verification" of its nuclear programme, insisting Tehran is not seeking atomic weapons.
Iran is prepared to dilute its highly enriched uranium if the U.S. lifts all sanctions on the country, head of Iran's atomic energy agency Mohammad Eslami said after talks resumed with Washington.
IAEA has not been able to verify the status of Iran’s near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel and the U.S. struck the country’s nuclear sites during the 12-day war in June, according to a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Iran still has almost all of its enriched uranium despite Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi told the Financial Times.
A Tbilisi court has ordered pretrial detention for Chinese nationals caught red-handed attempting to purchase a batch of uranium.