Trump says U.S. will 'dig up' uranium buried in Iran; Tehran does not confirm
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Trump announces U.S. plans to remove buried uranium in Iran, while Tehran has yet to confirm the statement.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that the U.S. will work with Iran to “dig up and remove” its enriched uranium that was buried under joint U.S.-Israeli strikes last summer.
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The U.S. President said on social media that “There will be no enrichment of Uranium” and that none of the material had been touched since the June attacks.
Mr. Trump had previously said the U.S. would retrieve the deeply buried material, which is expected to be an intensive undertaking, if it struck an agreement with Iran.
He added: “We are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran.”
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