The fear that Iran would take over core bombr is something that worries the West and, especially, the United States.
In fact, the existence of an enriched uranium production site was one of the reasons for declaring war on the ayatollahs in April.
After 40 days of war, Trump has raised the possibility of partnering with the ayatollahs to enter Iran and extract enriched uranium with excavators.
“He nuclear dust“, is one of the main concerns of the president who assures that they will enter with excavators to take away this metal.
The struggle to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is not recent. Already in June 2025, three nuclear facilities in Iran were attacked: Fordow, Natanz e Isfahan.
Therefore, during this last year the United States attacks have practically achieved one of their main objectives: paralyzing Iran’s nuclear program.
It is true that there are several ruined nuclear facilities in Iran and highly enriched uranium is believed to be buried under the rubble.
But, this is not entirely so. Although a good part of the ayatollahs’ nuclear program has been dynamited, abandoning it completely is not an easy task.
And, the Islamic Republic was not going to let go of the opportunity to have a nuclear bomb in such a simple way.
Clash with Iran
The version of the president of the United States, however, clashes with the claims of the ayatollahs and Iran.
Although the former supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had repeatedly issued a religious decree to prohibitsupposedly the production and use of nuclear weapons because he considered them prohibited by Islam.
At the same time, they have been developing their atomic capacity, having the knowledge, elements and highly enriched uranium necessary to manufacture it.
This is an international concern because it would pose a huge threat to global security.
A task that they have devoted themselves to over the last few years and that they are not willing to abandon so easily.
For this reason, Trump’s speech clearly clashes with Iran’s intentions, which reiterate its right to enrich uranium to obtain nuclear energy.
Although, now, the American president has come up with a new point in the peace agreement, which would be to collaborate with the Ayatollah regime to extract uranium and export it to the United States.
Something they deny from Iran: “We have never considered it as an option; Iran’s enriched uranium will not be transferred anywhere,” the Iranian foreign spokesman.
Out of reach of the US
One of the most unknown and, at the same time, dangerous points is what is known as Pickaxe Mountain.
The installation is 320 kilometers south of Tehran and just over a kilometer from the Natanz plant that was devastated by the United States in one of its attacks.
This is a place that could contain nuclear weapons deep underground, underground.
Experts suspect it could be a place that is out of reach of US bunker-buster bombs.
And, there are suspicions that the facility could be an ideal place for provide Iran a place to produce nuclear weapons and resume the ayatollahs’ project of acquiring the atomic bomb, according to the New York Times.
Although it is a secret and little-known place, it is true that satellite images show how Iran would have advanced in the construction of this site to contribute to manufacturing the nuclear bomb.
One of the main fears is that bombas Massive Ordnance Penetrator, designed to destroy uranium plants, are not able to reach this place.
“Pickaxe Mountain is deeper, larger and better fortified than Fordow,” the vice president of policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of the United States (JINSA) told the NYT.
Demand a complete dismantling
In Iran there is a tense calm in the middle of this ceasefire, the truce, that Trump has agreed upon.
This could fade at any time if no agreement is reached.
“We had good news. It seems that negotiations with Iran in the Middle East are going very well,” says the president.
Although “most points have been negotiated and agreed“According to Trump, the main point is uranium.
Precisely for Trump the reason for positivism is there, in Iran’s nuclear program.
According to the magnate himself, they would have negotiated for the ayatollahs to resign from him. Something that experts consider essential.
“In any deal negotiated with Iran, the Trump administration should insist on complete dismantlingverified and permanent of all plants”, emphasizes Andrea Sticker, researcher at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in NYC.
And the storage of uranium inside may be one of the main reasons why the United States and Israel have not bombed this mountain.
If done, it would make it difficult to extract this metal from inside the mountain or destroy the facilities themselves.
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