President Trump on Sunday vowed to confiscate Iran’s leftover nuclear material and warned the Islamic Republic that America is carefully watching its facilities from space.
The president said that taking control of Iran’s enriched uranium remains his top priority with Iran.
“We’ll get that at some point,” Trump, 79, told TV’s “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson” in an interview that dropped Sunday. “We have it surveilled. You know, I did a thing called Space Force, and they are watching.
“If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge,” he said of the technology’s capability. “We have that very well surveilled. If anybody got near the place, we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.”
During the war in Iran, Trump has weighed the possibility of greenlighting a very risky ground-troop deployment to confiscate Tehran’s nuclear material. So far, he’s held off from giving the go-ahead on that.
The US already bombed three of Iran’s top nuclear sites in June during Operation Midnight Hammer.
But earlier this year, during negotiations with Iran, the regime claimed to still have enough nuclear material that, if fully enriched, would be sufficient for 11 nukes, according to special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Both the US and Israel are believed to have conducted additional bombing near Iran’s nuclear sites. T
rump has long claimed that Iran’s “nuclear dust” is now buried deep, deep underground under a bunch of rubble.
“I think it accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over because there’s still nuclear material — enriched uranium — that has to be taken out of Iran,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CBS News’ “60 Minutes” of the allies’ joint war against the Islamic Republic.
“All that is still there, and there’s work to be done,” he said, noting that to get rid of the nuclear material, “you go in, and you take it out.”
The Trump administration has been negotiating with Iran for weeks. Last week, The Post reported on a 14-point framework for peace talks between Washington and Tehran. The two sides are still at loggerheads over Iran’s nuclear program.
Trump acknowledged the difficulties of negotiating with Iran because “they make a deal, and then they break it.
“They’re militarily defeated. In their own minds, maybe they don’t know that, but I think they do, because I deal with them. And we cannot ever let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” the president said.
“They have no navy,” he said. “They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft weaponry. They have no radar. They have no leaders. Their leaders are gone. The first set, the A-Team, is gone. The B-team is gone, and part of the C-team is gone.
“If we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.”
