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Trump Says Retrieving Iran’s ‘Nuclear Dust’ Will Be ‘Difficult’

Trump said U.S. strikes left Iran’s uranium hard to recover and said Tehran must return to talks or face further problems.

  • President Donald Trump stated on April 21 that retrieving Iran's enriched uranium will be a "long and difficult process," citing damage from "Operation Midnight Hammer," the United States airstrikes on Tehran's underground nuclear sites.
  • The United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Feb 28 to neutralize what Israel described as "the existential threat" posed by Iran's nuclear program, targeting facilities designated as "Nuclear Dust sites."
  • Before his Truth Social post, Trump told the John Fredericks Show that Iran must negotiate or "see problems like they've never seen before," while reiterating Iran will not possess a nuclear weapon and urging a "fair deal."
  • Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, who met with Vance in Islamabad earlier this month, wrote that the United States "delusionally aims to either turn talks into capitulation or excuse fresh hostilities."
  • The fate of ongoing peace talks remains uncertain as the ceasefire between the two sides is set to expire on Wednesday, while Trump maintains that Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium should ultimately transfer to United States territory.
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US President Donald Trump argues that identifying and extracting Iran's enriched uranium stock will require considerable time and effort, in the context of the fact that the exact location of nuclear material remains unclear following recent attacks on Iranian nuclear installations.

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Trump: Extracting Iran's "nuclear dust" is a complex and lengthy task; Operation "Midnight Hammer"...

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Times of India broke the news in India on Tuesday, April 21, 2026.
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