Israel's Defense Minister Israel Gallant posted a one-line tweet in English: 'Where's the uranium?' The question comes amid ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, where Israel has pressed for any deal to include removal of Tehran's enriched uranium stockpile. Gallant has not elaborated, but appears to highlight an unresolved core issue.
Minister Gallant's terse English tweet, 'Where's the uranium?' was posted at 15:29 Jerusalem. The question implicitly references the ongoing negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, where the fate of Iran's enriched uranium — particularly 460 kilograms at 60% purity — has been a sticking point. As The Zioneer reported on June 10, Iranian officials have found it extremely difficult to give up the stockpile. On June 11, President Trump announced that a deal was reached and that the enriched uranium would be 'buried under a mountain, where no one goes near it.' Gallant's tweet appears to challenge this formulation: it asks where the material is now and whether it has actually been secured or removed. The minister did not provide further context or state a deadline. The post is consistent with Israel's publicly stated policy that any nuclear deal must include the physical removal of enriched material from Iran, not merely its storage or relocation.
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