BREAKING: Trump Vows to Seize & Destroy Iran's Uranium — 430 Flotilla Activists Deported, Italy Demands EU Sanctions on Ben Gvir & New Iran Supreme Leader Blocks Nuclear Deal
A dramatic 24 hours in the Middle East war — Trump threatening to physically take Iran's enriched uranium and destroy it, all flotilla activists finally freed and flown home, Italy pushing for EU sanctions against an Israeli minister, and Iran's new Supreme Leader personally blocking the nuclear concession Washington needs most. EarthNews247 has every development, live.
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In the space of a single morning, the Iran war produced developments that stunned capitals from Washington to Brussels to Tehran. At the White House, President Donald Trump told reporters in the starkest language yet that the United States will physically seize Iran's stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium — enough, experts say, to build up to 10 nuclear weapons — and likely destroy it. "We will get it. We don't need it. We don't want it," Trump said. "We'll probably destroy it after we get it, but we're not going to let them have it." Those words landed in Tehran like a bomb. Iran's brand-new Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, had already issued a personal directive — revealed by senior Iranian sources to Reuters — that the uranium must not be sent abroad under any circumstances. The two men are in direct, irreconcilable conflict on the single issue that most defines whether there will be peace or renewed war.
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URANIUMTrump: "We Will Seize Iran's Uranium and Probably Destroy It": At a White House press conference on May 21, Trump declared that the US will take possession of Iran's stockpile of highly enriched uranium — which Washington says is destined for a nuclear weapon, though Iran insists it is for peaceful energy purposes. "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," he told reporAdvertisement
