US President Donald Trump on Thursday (May 21, 2026) returned to a more definitive tone on controlling Iran’s uranium. Last week, Mr Trump suggested he had no objection to the fact that about 970 pounds of highly enriched uranium remained buried beneath Iranian nuclear facilities that were targeted by US military strikes last year.

But speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday (May 21, 2026), Mr Trump returned to a more definitive tone about the US taking control of uranium as part of any potential peace deal with Iran. “We’ll get it. We don’t need it.

We don’t want it,” Mr Trump said. “We’ll probably destroy it once we get it, but we won’t let them keep it.

” Last week, Mr Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that “he would feel better if I found uranium”, but “it’s more for public relations than anything else. “.