us President donald trump It said late Monday that recovering uranium from Iran following the US attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities last year would be a “long and difficult process”.Posting on Truth Social, Trump claimed that “Operation Midnight Hammer was the complete and utter destruction of nuclear dust sites in Iran.” “Therefore, digging it out will be a long and difficult process,” he said.“Trump also criticized a section of the US media, writing that “Fake news CNN, and other corrupt media networks and platforms, fail to give our great aviators the credit they deserve – always trying to belittle and belittle – losers!!!”The US president often uses the phrase “nuclear dust” to describe Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, which Washington alleges Tehran has accumulated as part of efforts to build a nuclear bomb. At times, Trump has also used the term to refer to debris and residual material left after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.Trump has repeatedly said that Iran’s enriched uranium reserves would eventually be transferred to US territory, despite Tehran strongly rejecting any such proposal. Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denied plans to hand over the materials.The United States and Israel launched coordinated attacks on Iran on February 28, targeting facilities linked to Tehran’s nuclear program. Israel said the military action was necessary to eliminate the “existential threat” posed by the Islamic Republic.Israeli officials have since claimed that Iran has accelerated efforts to acquire nuclear weapons following the end of the 12-day war last June. That conflict began with Israeli strikes and later included US airstrikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, including a uranium enrichment plant. Trump told PBS News that Iran “should have been there” at the talks in Pakistan. “We agreed to stay there,” he said, warning that if the ceasefire ended “a lot of bombs would start going off”.