Trump Says US, Iran to Work Together to Dig Up Buried Enriched Uranium

U.S. President Donald Trump said on April 8 that the United States will work closely with Iran’s new leadership to eliminate Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, including extracting and removing what he described as deeply buried enriched uranium, as part of a broader push toward a peace deal. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Iran had undergone what he called a “very productive” regime change that has pledged no further uranium enrichment, adding that Washington would “work closely” with Tehran to “dig up and remove all of the deeply buried … Nuclear ‘Dust.’” Trump said the material—remnants of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles believed to be stored in underground facilities bombed by U.S.–Israeli forces—remains under “very exacting” satellite surveillance and asserted that “nothing has been touched from the date of attack.”...