“The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has gone through what will be a very productive Regime Change!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform hours after he proclaimed a two-week ceasefire in the Middle East war.
“There will be no enrichment of Uranium, and the United States will, working with Iran, dig up and remove all of the deeply buried (B-2 Bombers) Nuclear ‘Dust,'” he added, apparently referring to the aftermath of US strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities last year.
The statement marked the latest announcement by Trump after he backed off a threat to inflict devastating strikes on Iran – which he has accused for years of seeking to develop nuclear weapons.
The deal for a two-week ceasefire includes the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for oil and a fulcrum of the nearly six-week-long war.
In June 2025, US forces struck three nuclear sites in Iran – Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan – with powerful bunker-busting bombs dropped from B-2 stealth bombers.
Trump at the time claimed the operation “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capability and set back its nuclear programme by decades.
But the exact extent of the damage is unknown. Prior to last year’s strikes, Iran was enriching uranium to 60%, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
That is far higher than necessary for civilian reactor levels and close to the 90% required to build a nuclear weapon.
While Western powers and Israel have long accused Iran of seeking to acquire atomic weapons, Tehran denies it.
Trump also said that as part of engagement with Tehran, “we are, and will be, talking Tariff and Sanctions relief with Iran.”
But he warned against anyone supplying military weapons to Iran, threatening 50% US tariffs, “effective immediately”, on countries that do so.
According to Iranian state media, the plan proposed by Tehran calls for the lifting of sanctions that are stifling the country’s economy and stipulates that the US accept Iran’s uranium enrichment, a demand at deep odds with Washington’s stated position.