Trump says Iranian uranium will be brought back to the United States

Donald Trump stated on Friday that the enriched uranium stockpiled by Iran would be “brought back to the United States,” shortly after asserting that a deal with Tehran was very close to ending the war.

“We will go together with Iran to retrieve the enriched uranium,” he said at an event for the conservative organization Turning Point in Arizona, adding, “We will bring it back to the United States soon.”

The US president’s statements come after those of the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson who had earlier stated that Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles would not go “anywhere.”

But for Donald Trump, the US will recover the “nuclear dust” with the help of “a lot of diggers.”

“We will need the biggest diggers you can imagine,” the US president told a crowd of supporters.

Donald Trump uses the term “nuclear dust” to refer to both Iran’s enriched uranium stocks and sometimes to refer to the nuclear material buried during US strikes on Iran in June 2025.

The US president appeared increasingly optimistic on Friday about the chances of a deal with Tehran, stating in a call with AFP that there were no remaining “obstacles” and such an agreement was “very close.”

AFP