Donald Trump Says US Surveils Iran’s Enriched Uranium, Threatens To Blow Up Approachers

US President Donald Trump said the US has Iran’s enriched uranium under surveillance and that if anyone approaches the site, “we will know about it, and we’ll blow them up.”

In an interview with Full Measure, Trump said, “We’ll get that at some point... We have it surveilled,” adding that the Space Force is watching the location.

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Trump also said the US does not rely on the Strait of Hormuz, saying, “We don’t need the strait. We were doing it to help Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and others,” while discussing the war status.

Trump claimed the June 2025 operation stopped Iran when it was “only two weeks away from a nuclear weapon,” and said, “If we didn’t do that, they would have already blown up Israel.”

An Iranian military spokesperson told IRNA that Iranian forces were on “full readiness” to protect nuclear sites storing uranium, saying Iran considered the US might try to remove the uranium through infiltration or an airborne operation.

Brig. Gen. Akrami Nia said Iran considered the US might try to remove the uranium through infiltration or an airborne operation, and the warning framed the US approach as a potential attempt to “remove the uranium.”

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In the same period, Trump told Sharyl Attkisson that the US will know if anyone goes near the enriched uranium and that Space Force can identify a person, saying, “If somebody walked in, they (Space Force) can tell you his name, address, his badge number.”

Trump also said the US could go in for “two more weeks” and claimed it had probably destroyed “70 per cent of the targets,” while insisting the US is “not done yet.”

While Trump spoke about Iran’s enriched uranium, the US Department of Energy announced that “thanks to President Trump’s decisive leadership” 13.5kg (about 30 pounds) of uranium had been removed from a legacy research reactor in Venezuela.

The Guardian reported that the uranium was taken to a Department of Energy complex in South Carolina after being removed from a site 15km from Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, and that the International Atomic Energy Agency said it was “safely and securely transported by land and sea from South to North America.”

The Guardian also said the Department of Energy described the joint operation involving the UK, the US and Venezuela as “a win for America, Venezuela, and the world,” and quoted Brandon Williams saying the safe removal “sends another signal to the world of a restored and renewed Venezuela.”

The Guardian added that one of Trump’s stated objectives after going to war with Iran in February was forcing it to surrender about 408kg of highly enriched uranium, and said “So far those efforts have failed.”