US President Donald Trump said Monday that the retrieval of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile will require a “long and difficult process.”
“Operation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the Nuclear Dust sites in Iran,” Trump said, referring to the June 2025 strikes he ordered on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The US president has long maintained that the attacks “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, and has recently referred to the uranium stockpile as “dust.”
“Therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process,” he added.
The remarks come ahead of potential high-level talks in Pakistan.