Trump has said a lot of wild things lately, but this one really takes the cake.
President Donald Trump made it crystal clear today: any nuclear deal with Iranwill require American teams to physically enter the country and remove every kilogram of enriched uranium themselves. In his live Fox Business interview with Maria Bartiromo, the same explosive segment where he said Iran “really wants to make a deal… badly” and that an agreement “could happen within the next five days - or sooner,” Trump was asked the direct question: “How are you going to get the enriched uranium?” His answer was blunt and unmistakable:
“It’s very easy. If we have a deal with them, we’re going down and we’ll take it ourselves.” Trump explained the move is non-negotiable because Iran’s stockpiles of near-weapons-grade uranium are buried deep underground in fortified sites. Air strikes alone cannot guarantee complete destruction, and he refuses to trust Tehran to hand it over or destroy it themselves.
Trump explained the move is non-negotiable because Iran’s stockpiles of near-weapons-grade uranium are buried deep underground in fortified sites. Air strikes alone cannot guarantee complete destruction, and he refuses to trust Tehran to hand it over or destroy it themselves. He then laid out his full list of ironclad demands for any agreement:
- No nuclear bomb: “no nuclear weapon, not even close to it.”
- Low key on missiles: dramatic scaling back of Iran’s ballistic missile program.
- Peace in the Middle East.
- Zero enrichment: “We want the nuclear dust. No enrichment.”
- Complete removal: “We want the enriched uranium.”
