Trump downplays need to reach Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, claiming it’s ‘not valuable,’ and Tehran can’t access it

US President Donald Trump again downplays the importance of obtaining Iran’s stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, claiming that Tehran can’t access them anyway.

He again claims that the “nuclear dust” is buried deep under rubble after the US bombed Iran’s three main nuclear sites last year. He says only the US and China have the equipment to reach it.

“It’s actually not valuable, but we’d like to get it psychologically,” Trump says.

“Nobody’s touching it. We also have Space Force cameras” monitoring the sites, he claims.

It has not been publicly confirmed that the stockpiles are actually located in one of those three sites. Iran is also said to have other stockpiles of uranium enriched to lower levels, which can also be turned into a nuclear weapon, located elsewhere.

“If somebody walks in and he’s got a badge with his name on it — like Mohammed something, which is about a 50-50 guess, (the Space Force cameras) can tell the name and serial number,” Trump says during a press conference at a G7 summit.

Despite downplaying the importance of securing the enriched uranium, Trump says it will be at the top of discussions with Iran over the next two months.

“They’ll work closely with us to turn over the so-called enriched material,” he says, before again suggesting that the goal is not that important to him, as Iran is likely to push back on the demand.

“It’s not important that we do it quickly, but we could do it fairly quickly when we have a chance,” Trump says.

If Iran does try and move the material, “we’ll hit them with Patriots [missiles],” the president warns.

Trump again boasts that Iran agreed in the MOU to “neither produce nor procure a nuclear weapon” — a pledge nearly identical to the one from the 2015 Obama nuclear deal.

As for the components of the deal outlining $300 billion in reconstruction investment by the US and other allies, Trump says Washington is not actually obligated to contribute to the fund.

Moreover, he says any US sanctions relief to Iran will be “based on merit,” even though the US has already begun preparations to waive sanctions on Iran to allow it to export oil.