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Despite Iranian denials, Trump insists Iran’s uranium to be taken ‘back home to the USA very soon’
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US President Donald Trump speaks at a Turning Point USA event, April 17, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
US President Donald Trump says Iran’s uranium will be transferred to the United States under any peace deal, adding that Washington will help Tehran dig it out from nuclear facilities hit in US strikes last year, despite the Islamic Republic’s strenuous denials that it will hand over its stockpile of enriched uranium.
“We’re going to get it by going in with Iran, with lots of excavators,” Trump says in a speech to the conservative Turning Point USA movement in Phoenix, Arizona. “We’re going to take it back home to the USA very soon.”
Trump also insists that no money will change hands as part of the deal being negotiated to end the Iran war.
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