The war in Iran “is not over”, the uranium still needs to be removed from there, says Netanyahu
The war in Iran is “not over”, as the enriched uranium stocks still need to be “withdrawn from Iran”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the American CBS television channel, according to an excerpt from an interview broadcast on Sunday, AFP reports.
The war “allowed many things to be accomplished, but it is not over, because there is still nuclear material – enriched uranium – that needs to be removed from Iran,” Benjamin Netanyahu said, adding that there are also “enrichment facilities to dismantle.”
Asked if he knew how to “extract” uranium from Iran, the Israeli leader said: “We're going to go there and get it.”
“That's what President Trump said to me: 'I want us to go there.' And I think it is physically possible. That's not the problem. If we reach an agreement, we will go there and take it. Why not? It's the best solution,” added Netanyahu.
In an interview broadcast separately on Sunday in the USA, American President Donald Trump stated: “We will end up recovering it (uranium), we are keeping it under observation.”
“If anybody comes near that place, we're going to know and we're going to blow them up,” Trump added in statements made to independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson.
The fate of Iran's enriched uranium is one of the key issues at the center of talks between Tehran and Washington for a lasting peace.
The latest publicly available data dates to just before the 12-day war in June 2025.
According to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors, Iran then had 441 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, close to the 90% threshold that would allow the manufacture of a nuclear bomb, 180 kg of uranium enriched to 20% and more than 6,000 kg of uranium enriched to 5%.
The stocks of 60% were in three locations: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.
After the Israeli-American strikes in June 2025, and then after this year's, the fate of these stocks remains uncertain in the absence of IAEA inspections: is the uranium buried, as Tehran claims? Was part of it moved or destroyed?
“If the Atomic Energy Agency will take care (of uranium recovery), it suits us too,” said the US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, in another interview given to the CBS station, Sunday morning.
