Only US, China can retrieve enriched uranium from Iran's 'obliterated' nuclear sites, says Trump
President Trump said Thursday that only the U.S. and China can retrieve enriched uranium from Iran’s buried nuclear sites, adding that the facilities were so badly damaged by strikes that recovering anything would be difficult.
“We attacked their nuclear sites and they were obliterated,” he told reporters in the Oval Office.
“It turned out that, you know, CNN was wrong. They said, ‘Well, maybe they weren’t hit that hard.’ They were hit so hard, nobody knows if you could even get it out,” he added.
Trump went on to argue that only the U.S. and China have the equipment capable of reaching it.
“But the only ones that have the capability of getting it out are us and China,” Trump said.
“We’re the only ones with that kind of equipment that’s powerful enough to go down that deep into a mountain, but that mountain crushed it.”
“That mountain literally collapsed on top of it.”
Referring to assessments by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, he said the agency agreed.
“And now the atomic energy, as you know, has backed us up on that. They think it’s a very, very hard thing to get to, but we’ll get it anyway. But we’re the only ones — and China, I believe, does, too — that have the capability,” he said.
Yesterday's Fox News Digital live blog offers additional coverage of the conflict with Iran.
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