Denying report, Trump says all uranium enrichment banned under proposed Iran deal

US President Donald Trump appears to deny a report in Axios that his administration is pursuing a deal with Iran that would allow limited uranium enrichment.

“The AUTOPEN should have stopped Iran a long time ago from “enriching.” Under our potential Agreement — WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANY ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM!,” he writes on his Truth Social platform.

A subsequent post boasts of the US military “stockpiling weapons at a rate never seen before by our Country.”

“Hopefully, however, we will never have to use them!,” he writes.

According to Axios, the proposal presented to Iran on Saturday by Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi would forbid Iran from building new enrichment facilities and dismantle existing infrastructure, but would allow it to keep enriching in above-ground facilities to 3 percent, the level needed to fuel a civilian nuclear reactor.

The White House responded earlier by saying “Trump has made it clear that Iran can never obtain a nuclear bomb,” but did not deny the report.

Both the US and Israel have agreed that any deal must include a requirement for Iran to cease all uranium enrichment activity, and US special envoy Steve Witkoff has insisted that this is a red line he will not back down from.

Iran has said it will reject any deal that bans enrichment for civilian purposes.

A senior Iranian diplomat said Monday that Tehran would reject the US proposal, saying that it fails to address Tehran’s interests or soften Washington’s stance on uranium enrichment.