DONALD Trump has vowed to destroy Iran’s stocks of enriched uranium whether or not he makes a deal with the rogue nation.
As his bloody war on Iran reached its 100-day mark, Trump threatened: “We’re very close to a deal, or I’m going to blow the hell out of them.”
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Trump says he could work with Iran to destroy uranium Credit: Jattvibe News
The US president said ‘it would take weeks of digging’ to get to the uranium Credit: Jattvibe News
Trump told Jattvibe in an interview recorded on Friday that the US could work with the Iranians to destroy the regime’s stocks of enriched uranium.
The US president said that the only two countries that would be able to destroy the stocks were the US and China after they were buried under the mountain by a huge blitz.
He said: “It is buried under mountains because our B2s were incredible.
“It’s buried, they can’t get it… three mountains have fallen in on them.”
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The US president said “it would take weeks of digging” to get to the uranium.
Making sure Tehran can never develop nukes is a key sticking point that has reportedly caused peace talks to stall several times.
Trump added: “The only two countries that can get it are us and China, because we’re the only two with the equipment that’s capable of doing that kind of work.
The US military struck Iranian radar in ‘defensive’ strikes overnight Credit: US Central command
A US helicopter defending vessels in the Strait of Hormuz Credit: US Central Command
“If we make a deal, we’ll do it with them, we’re going to do it with the Iranians.
“If we don’t make a deal, we may do it, or we may just watch it, we have cameras all over it.”
Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran can never be allowed to make a nuclear weapon, and promised to obliterate the regime’s “nuclear dust”.
It comes as the US said it shot down a pair of Iranian drones threatening the Strait of Hormuz, once again testing a fragile ceasefire in the region.
As the conflict reached its 100th day, Pakistan’s interior minister Mohsin Naqvi, a key mediator between the US and Iran, is visiting Tehran.
He said he was there to deliver a “special letter” from Pakistani army chief Munir to Iran’s supreme leader, according to Iranian state television.
Naqvi claimed the letter carried “a very important message”.
Lebanese army chief Rodolphe Haykal was in Pakistan for talks “linked to the Pakistani mediation”, a source said.
Iran has repeatedly insisted that Israel‘s attacks on Lebanon must stop as a condition for any peace deal.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it destroyed two Iranian drones “that threatened international maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz”.
And Tehran blasted a salvo of missiles at its Gulf neighbours Bahrain and Kuwait.
Although Trump was positive about a deal, Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi told CNN that talks with the US were “very cumbersome”.
He said: “The main problem of negotiating with this administration is that you have to face so many changing positions, moving the goalposts, different statements, contradictory remarks.”
Trump also told Jattvibe he would not lift US sanctions or unfreeze any assets before a peace deal is finalised.
He added that he would speak to maimed and missing supreme tyrant Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not been seen since the blitz that killed his dictator dad at the start of the war.
Trump said: “I don’t want to say whether or not I know where he is, but there’s a good probability that I do.”
