Topline<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump said the process of retrieving enriched uranium from Iran will be a difficult process, claiming this was because of last year\u2019s airstrikes on the country\u2019s nuclear facilities, as the fate of the second round of peace talks between both countries remained uncertain, as the ceasefire between the two sides is set to expire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump said he expects Iran to return to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n
Associated PressKey Facts<\/p>\n
In a post on Truth Social<\/a> shortly before midnight, Trump said Operation Midnight Hammer had resulted in the \u201ccomplete and total obliteration\u201d of Iran\u2019s \u201cNuclear Dust sites,\u201d a reference to the U.S. airstrikes on Iran\u2019s underground nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n The president said that because of this, the \u201cdigging it out\u201d will be a \u201clong and difficult process.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump also attacked CNN and other media outlets in his post, saying they \u201cfail to give our great aviators the credit they deserve,\u201d although it’s unclear what piece of coverage he was referring to.<\/p>\n The president has insisted that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and even suggested that a peace deal will involve the removal of Iran\u2019s stockpile of enriched uranium from the country\u2014something Tehran has vehemently pushed back against<\/a>.<\/p>\n Before his Truth Social post, Trump appeared on the conservative talk radio program John Fredericks Show and said Iran is going to have to negotiate and if they don\u2019t, they will \u201csee problems like they’ve never seen before.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump said he hoped they\u2019ll agree to a \u201cfair deal\u201d and build their country back up, but reiterated \u201cthey will not have a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n What Have Iranian Officials Said?<\/p>\n Iran\u2019s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf, who was involved in the first round of talks with JD Vance in Islamabad earlier this month, wrote on X<\/a>: \u201cBy enforcing a siege and breaking the truce, Trump delusionally aims to either turn talks into capitulation or excuse fresh hostilities.\u201d The Iranian leader then warned: \u201cWe will not hold negotiations under threat, and in the last two weeks, we have prepared to play new cards on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n What To Watch For<\/p>\n The status of the second round of peace talks remains unclear as the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran is set to expire on Wednesday. Trump told Bloomberg<\/a> on Monday morning that it is \u201chighly unlikely\u201d that he will extend the ceasefire if a peace deal is not reached between the two countries. Multiple<\/a> outlets have reported that Vice President JD Vance and other U.S. officials are expected to travel to Islamabad on Tuesday. Esmail Baghaei, the spokesperson for Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry, said Monday Iran had made \u201cno decision\u201d on attending. Iran\u2019s President Masoud Pezeshkian tweeted, \u201cDeep historical mistrust in Iran toward U.S. gov conduct remains, while unconstructive & contradictory signals from American officials carry a bitter message; they seek Iran’s surrender. Iranians do not submit to force.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline President Donald Trump said the process of retrieving enriched uranium from Iran will be a difficult process,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,88393,190682,190681,43,40,38,41,39,190683],"class_list":{"0":"post-403020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-nuclear-talks","12":"tag-iran-uranium","13":"tag-mohammad-ghalibaf","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-trump-nuclear-dust"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}