Iran Still Holds Enriched Uranium After US Strikes

The game is not over, said a close aide of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, adding that the country still has stocks of enriched uranium amid global concerns over the whereabouts of the vital nuclear component after US strikes on three Iranian facilities on June 21.

The Donald Trump-led US administration carried out strikes at the Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz uranium enrichment facilities of Iran on Saturday. Trump said the strikes completely and totally obliterated the nuclear facilities targeted using bunker buster bombs that were dropped by B-2 bombers.

Iran's government said Tuesday it had taken the necessary measures to ensure the continuation of its nuclear programme after US and Israeli strikes targeted its facilities, AFP news agency reported.

An adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said his country still had stocks of enriched uranium and that the game is not over.

Amid global question mark over the location of Iran's uranium, US officials seem to have admitted that Tehran's stockpile of the vital nuclear component remains unaccounted for.

When asked about what happened to the 400 kg highly enriched uranium that Iran had, US Vice President JD Vance said in an interview to ABC News on Monday that the administration would work in the coming weeks to do something about the fuel and would have conversations with the Iranians.

In another interview to Fox News, Vance said that the Iran's uranium stockpile might be buried beneath the three enrichment facilities struck by the US over the weekend.

Israel attacked Iran on June 13, hitting Iranian nuclear sites and killing the top brass of its military command in the worst threat faced by the Islamic Republic since war with Iraq in the 1980s. Iran carried out retaliatory missile strikes on Israel. Trump entered the war on Saturday with strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, one buried deep inside a mountain, using huge bombs that Israel does not possess.

Trump on Tuesday announced that Iran and Israel reached a ceasefire deal. On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR', Trump wrote on Truth Social.

According to the source: Hindustan Times.