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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said late Monday that the United States obtaining uranium from Iran would be \u201clong\u201d and \u201cdifficult\u201d in the aftermath of last year\u2019s US strikes on Tehran\u2019s nuclear sites.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOperation Midnight Hammer was a complete and total obliteration of the Nuclear Dust sites in Iran,\u201d Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, adding: \u201cTherefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US president regularly uses the term \u201cnuclear dust\u201d to refer to Iran\u2019s stock of enriched uranium, which Washington accuses Tehran of hoarding in order to develop an atomic bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he has also at times used the term to describe material left following US strikes on Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities in June last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 79-year-old president maintains that Iran\u2019s stockpile of enriched uranium would eventually be transferred to US territory, despite Iran\u2019s foreign ministry rejecting any such plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran on February 28 to eliminate what Israel described as \u201cthe existential threat\u201d posed by the Islamic republic\u2019s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israeli officials have claimed that Tehran intensified efforts to acquire an atomic weapon after the end of the 12-day war in June last year, which was initiated by Israel and included US bombings of three nuclear facilities, including an enrichment plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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