Trump says Iranians have "agreed to everything," including removal of enriched uranium. "Not exactly", says Tehran!

Politics

By Weijia Jiang

Updated on: April 17, 2026 / 2:45 PM EDT

CBS NEWS

President Trump said in a phone interview that Iran has "agreed to everything," and will work with the U.S. to remove its enriched uranium.
He insisted that doing so will not involve U.S. ground troops. But when asked who would retrieve it, he would only say "our people."

"No. No troops," he said. "We'll go down and get it with them, and then we'll take it. We'll be getting it together because by that time, we'll have an agreement and there's no need for fighting when there's an agreement. Nice right? That's better. We would have done it the other way if we had to."

The president said the material would then be brought to the U.S.

"Our people, together with the Iranians, are going to work together to go get it. And then we'll take it to the United States," he said.

The president also said Iran has agreed to stop backing proxy terrorist groups, like Hezbollah and Hamas.

When asked when he would be announcing the deal, Mr. Trump said the two sides are meeting this weekend and that the U.S. would continue its blockade "until we get it done."

Although Axios reported that the Trump administration was discussing the possibility of releasing $20 billion in frozen Iranian assets in exchange for its nuclear stockpile, the president denied it: "No, we are not paying 10 cents."

Iran says enriched uranium "not going to be transferred"

By AFP

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday said the country's stockpile of enriched uranium would not be transferred anywhere, denying a claim by President Trump that the Islamic Republic had agreed to hand it over.

"Iran's enriched uranium is not going to be transferred anywhere," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei told state TV.