Iran’s uranium enrichment program has been a major issue of national security concern for a couple of decades now. In current national security debates, one camp maintains that the preservation of Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities in any form is intolerable.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would "take" Iran’s enriched uranium if necessary — raising questions about how American forces could physically secure the material after strikes on nuclear sites. "Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, and we're ...

(CNN) — For the US to reach a deal with Iran or to end its war in the country, President Trump has said he wants Iran to surrender its “enriched” uranium. “We want no enrichment, but we also want the enriched uranium,” he told CNN’s Kaitlan ...

The U.S. estimates that Iran possesses nearly 1,000 pounds of highly-enriched uranium. It’s not quite enriched to weapons-grade, but it’s not far off. As part of its attempt to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the U.S. is attempting to ...

Hidden in the mountains of Iran, there is a stockpile of canisters that could determine the future of the war. The large steel tanks are filled with 440 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient for a nuclear bomb. It has been described as ...