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Trump Says Iran Agreed on Uranium
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Trump Says the Talks MovedPresident Trump said Iran had "agreed… |
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Trump Says the Talks MovedPresident Trump said Iran had "agreed to everything" in negotiations over its enriched uranium, and he said the material would be removed without U.S. troops on the ground. In his CBS interview, he described a joint operation with Iranian officials to collect the uranium and take it to the United States. That is a bold way to describe diplomacy, but then again, nuclear talks rarely come with soothing background music. Axios had reported earlier that officials were discussing several options, including moving the uranium to a third country or "down-blending" it so it would be less enriched.https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/2045207832463602051? https://twitter.com/TVNewsNow/status/2045233986616877313? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxoVFhzMn4A Why the Uranium Stockpile MattersThe number at the center of this fight is not small. Axios said the administration wanted to block access to nearly 2,000 kilograms of enriched uranium, including about 450 kilograms at 60 percent purity. That matters because commercial nuclear power plants usually use uranium enriched to about 3 to 5 percent, while 90 percent is often treated as weapons grade. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Iranian negotiators told him they had enough material for 11 nuclear weapons and claimed they had a right to keep enriching. That kind of statement tends to make…
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