Iran Responds: 'Game's Not Over' on the Uranium Question

Iran Responds: "It's not over," said an aide to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who announced while referring to the quantities of enriched uranium the country still had, as the world is worried about the material containing uranium after U.S. strikes on three Iranian facilities on June 21.

The U.S. led by Donald Trump, who, on Saturday, struck the locations of the Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz uranium enrichment facilities of Iran, stated that the strikes "completely and totally obliterated" the nuclear facilities the U.S. bombed using bunker buster bombs dropped by B-2 bombers.

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The government of Iran, on Tuesday, cited by AFP news agency, had "taken the necessary measures" securing the continuation of its nuclear program after the strikes hit Iranian facilities by U.S. and Israeli forces.

"We have taken the necessary measures and are taking stock of the damage," AFP reported that Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran stated in remarks aired on state television.

"Plans for restarting (the facilities) have been prepared in advance, and our strategy is to ensure that production and services are not disrupted," he added.

One adviser of Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said his country still had stocks of enriched uranium and that the "game is not over".

US acknowledges uranium still with Iran

While global ambiguity remains concerning the whereabouts of Iran's enriched uranium supply, US officials appear to have accepted that Tehran's stockpile of the essential nuclear material is still missing — with respect to the original agreement.

In an interview with ABC news on Monday discussing what happened to the 400 kg of highly enriched uranium that the Iranians did possess, US Vice President JD Vance commented that the administration "would work in the coming weeks to do something about the fuel, and would chat with the Iranians".

On Sunday US Vice President apparently acknowledged that the uranium may still be somewhere in Iran.

He did mention in another interview with Fox News that Iran's uranium stockpile may be buried below the three enrichment facilities that the US pounded with bombs on the weekend.

"Our goal was to bury the uranium, and I do think the uranium is buried..." Vance told Fox News, adding that the US wanted to get rid of it, as well as eliminating Iran having the ability to convert the enriched fuel into a nuclear weapon.

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Israel-Iran ceasefire

On June 13, Israel struck Iran, targeting Iranian nuclear sites, with the attack killing the highest levels of the military command of Iran in the biggest threat to the Islamic Republic since it fought Iraq in the 1980s. Israel claimed it carried out those strikes, as part of Operation Rising Lion, to stop Iran from moving forward with its nuclear ambitions.

Iran opposed this with retaliatory missile strikes against Israel. Trump also entered the war on Saturday with strikes against Iranian nuclear sites, including one deep in the mountain, using enormous bombs that Israel does not have.

On Tuesday Trump said that Iran and Israel had reach a ceasefire agreement. "On the assumption that everything works as it should, which it will, I would like to congratulate both Countries, Israel and Iran, on having the Stamina, Courage, and Intelligence to end, what should be called, 'THE 12 DAY WAR'," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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