Iran Can’t Access Enriched Uranium Now, But Removing It Is a Red Line
During Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Vice President JD Vance said there was “no flexibility” on the need to remove enriched uranium from Iran, and that “it doesn’t matter, of course, because they have access to this material now.” This material was actually buried underground by Operation Midnight Hammer. But if you think about it in the long term, the president doesn’t want to let the next president or the president after that worry about this program, and so, we would. I would like to see this material completely removed from the country so that the United States has control over it. »
Vance said: “[T]There are two things in particular that the President of the United States has really said we have no flexibility on, we have to get to the outcome that the President has said: On the first of those things, what some call the dust, which is the enriched uranium that the Iranians currently have, we have said we want that out of their country and we would like to take possession of it. Now why is this important? Of course, this doesn’t matter, because they now have access to this material. This material was actually buried underground by Operation Midnight Hammer. But if you think about this in the long term, the president doesn’t want to let the next president or the next president worry about this program, and so we would like to see this material completely removed from the country so that the United States has control over it. It’s number one.
He continued: “And the second thing is that, again, as far as verification goes, it’s one thing for the Iranians to say they won’t have a nuclear weapon. It’s another thing for us to put in place the mechanism to ensure that that won’t happen. Part of that is, of course, to ensure that they don’t have the capability to enrich uranium, which is why they got so close to a nuclear weapon before.”
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