Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that Iran had agreed to hand over its stockpile of enriched uranium to the United States. Iranian Department of Diplomacy emphasized that these materials will not be moved “anywhere”, AFP reported.
“Iran’s enriched uranium will not be moved anywhere,” said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaíl Bakayí, for state television. Trump previously wrote in a post on his social network Truth Social that “The US will get all the nuclear ‘dust’ created by our great B-2 bombers”, thus alluding to nuclear material littered with debris from US strikes in 2025.
At the same time, the American president stated that there would be no agreement on the Iranian nuclear program involve no financial transactions. “No money will be exchanged between the United States and Iran in any way,” wrote. He was responding to a report by the Axios portal, according to which Washington considered releasing about $20 billion of Iran’s frozen funds in exchange for stockpiles of enriched uranium.
The media, citing informed sources, said that during the earlier stage of the negotiations, the US considered releasing six billion dollars to buy food, medicine and other humanitarian needs, while Iran demanded up to $27 billion.
According to the quoted sources, the sum of approximately 20 billion dollars was subsequently discussed, while one of the American representatives called it Washington’s proposal and others described swapping uranium for funds as “one of several options” in the negotiations.
