A satellite image shows airstrike craters over the underground centrifuge halls of the Natanz Enrichment Facility, following U.S. airstrikes amid the Iran-Israel conflict, in Natanz County, Iran, on June 22, 2025. Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump said on April 8 that the United States will work closely with Iran’s new leadership to eliminate Tehran’s nuclear capabilities, including extracting and removing what he described as deeply buried enriched uranium, as part of a broader push toward a peace deal.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Iran had undergone what he called a “very productive” regime change that has pledged no further uranium enrichment, adding that Washington would “work closely” with Tehran to “dig up and remove all of the deeply buried … Nuclear ‘Dust.’”