Trump vows United States will retrieve uranium from Iran

Washington: President Donald Trump vowed on Thursday that the United ⁠States will eventually recover Iran's stockpile of ⁠highly enriched uranium ‌despite comments from ​Iran that it will not hand over the material.

"We will get it. We don't ​need it, we ⁠don't want it. We'll probably destroy it after we get it, but we're not ⁠going ‌to let them have it," Trump told reporters at ‌the White House. Iran is believed ⁠to possess about 900 pounds of highly ‌enriched uranium, which Trump ‌says was buried by US ‌and Israeli airstrikes nearly a ‌year ago.

Retrieving the uranium is part of Trump's central objective of his ⁠war ⁠on Iran that Tehran will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.

Iran's Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country's near-weapons-grade uranium ​should not be sent ​abroad, two senior Iranian ​sources told Reuters.