WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration hit again on Wednesday (Jun 25) at accounts Iran might have moved enriched uranium earlier than US bombing, as a row grew on how much the strikes set back Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Trump, searching for credit score for ordering army motion after which rapidly announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, has lashed out angrily at media accounts of a categorised report that doubted the extent of damage to Iranian nuclear sites.
One other key query raised by specialists is whether or not Iran, getting ready for the strike, moved out some 400kg of enriched uranium – which may now be hidden elsewhere within the huge nation.
“I can inform you, the US had no indication that that enriched uranium was moved previous to the strikes, as I additionally noticed falsely reported,” White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt advised Fox Information.
“As for what’s on the bottom proper now, it is buried underneath miles and miles of rubble due to the success of those strikes on Saturday night,” she mentioned.
Vice President JD Vance, requested in regards to the uranium on Sunday, had sounded much less definitive and mentioned the US would talk about the difficulty with Iran.
“We’ll work within the coming weeks to make sure that we do one thing with that gas,” Vance advised ABC Information programme This Week.
