Trump: Recovering Iran’s uranium will be ‘long and difficult process’
President Trump said retrieving Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile will require a “long and difficult process,” reiterating that his June 2025 strikes, dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer,” obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites. His comments come ahead of potential US-Iran talks in Pakistan, though Tehran has yet to confirm participation.
US President Donald Trump stated on Monday that recovering Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile will be a “long and difficult process,” reinforcing his administration’s强硬 stance on Tehran’s nuclear program. “Operation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the Nuclear Dust sites in Iran,” Trump said, referring to the strikes he ordered on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025. The president has consistently maintained that those attacks destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities and has recently described the country’s uranium stockpile as mere “dust.” “Therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process,” he added.
Context of potential talks
Trump’s remarks come just as the United States and Iran consider another round of high-level negotiations in Pakistan. The president announced on Sunday that US representatives would fly to Islamabad for discussions, but Tehran has yet to officially confirm its participation and has demanded the lifting of the US naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistan hosted the first direct US-Iran engagement in Islamabad on April 11-12—the first such contact since the two countries severed diplomatic ties in 1979—but those talks ended without a breakthrough.
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