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 a lot the strikes set again Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Trump, searching for credit score for ordering army motion after which shortly saying a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, has lashed out angrily at media accounts of a categorized report that doubted the extent of injury to Iranian nuclear websites.
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 might now be hidden elsewhere within the huge nation.
“I can let you know, america 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 instructed Fox Information.
“As for what’s on the bottom proper now, it is buried beneath miles and miles of rubble due to the success of those strikes on Saturday night,” she mentioned.
Vice President JD Vance, requested concerning the uranium on Sunday, had sounded much less definitive and mentioned america would talk about the difficulty with Iran.
“We will work within the coming weeks to make sure that we do one thing with that gasoline,” Vance instructed ABC Information programme This Week.
