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Disputing Trump, Iran says its enriched uranium stockpile ‘not being transferred anywhere’
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Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)
Iran’s foreign ministry says the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium will not be transferred “anywhere,” denying an earlier claim by US President Donald Trump that the Islamic Republic agreed to hand it over.
“Iran’s enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei tells state TV.
Trump posted on his Truth Social platform earlier today that “The U.S.A. will get all Nuclear ‘Dust,’ created by our great B2 Bombers,” referring to nuclear material buried by US strikes last year.
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