U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on April 24, 2026. Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States or potentially China could enter Iran in the future to remove nuclear material after the 2025 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“At the right time, we‘ll either go in, or we’ll get it. I think we‘ll probably get it, but if we don’t get it, we’ll go in,” Trump told reporters on May 15 as he was departing China, saying that ”nuclear dust,” referring to enriched uranium, still needs to be removed from the country.
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