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Vance suggests Iran uranium ‘buried’ as mystery of missing nuclear fuel grows
new york post ^ | 06/23/2025 | Caitlin Doornbos

Posted on 06/24/2025 11:12:01 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said Monday he believed Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is buried beneath three nuclear facilities bombed by the US over the weekend — though other officials and experts fear that the theocratic regime may have moved and stashed the nuclear fuel just before the attack.

“Our goal was to bury the uranium, and I do think the uranium is buried, but our goal was to eliminate the enrichment and eliminate their ability to convert that enriched fuel into a nuclear weapon,” Vance told Fox News “Special Report” host Bret Baier when asked if the US knew the location of Iran’s roughly 400kg (882 pounds) of uranium enriched to 60% purity.

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If the enriched uranium is still under Iran's control, it still is a threat.
1 posted on 06/24/2025 11:12:01 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Offer a million bucks and/or 100 goats for good info.


2 posted on 06/24/2025 11:14:45 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Oh, we don’t know where the stuff we paid billions to make is.


3 posted on 06/24/2025 11:15:26 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Buried under tons of rock....................


4 posted on 06/24/2025 11:15:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“If the enriched uranium is still under Iran’s control, it still is a threat.”

Yeah. No kidding. They moved it out. Our people took out the processors. They can work on the rest later

What’s your point


5 posted on 06/24/2025 11:15:49 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

As much as I love Trump, the messaging out of his administration on the Iran operation has been chaotic and uncoordinated. First Trump tweets that he wants regime change, then he says he doesn’t want regime change. First the administration says that it completely destroyed Iran’s enriched uranium. Now Vance says there may still be some buried. If some still exists, why did we stop military operations? I’m glad Israel and the US did what they did but the message on the objective and result is all over the map and undermining the success of the operation.


6 posted on 06/24/2025 11:17:07 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET; All

I hope we know where it is ALL OF IT very soon.


7 posted on 06/24/2025 11:17:38 AM PDT by Milagros
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“ First the administration says that it completely destroyed Iran’s enriched uranium”

Provide that quote please

Trump never said we were to to work for regime change.


8 posted on 06/24/2025 11:19:58 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

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9 posted on 06/24/2025 11:20:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“the materials had already been taken out”

Hassan Abedini, the deputy political director of Iran’s state broadcaster

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/22/how-far-will-us-strikes-set-back-irans-nuclear-programme


10 posted on 06/24/2025 11:21:56 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“ the message on the objective and result is all over the map and undermining the success of the operation.”

The operation is over

In what way ‘tis Trump telling us idiotic gossipers, anything or nothing, doing anything to undermine any operation


11 posted on 06/24/2025 11:22:37 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: stanne

so, they moved it to Syria to store with WMD’s? LOL


12 posted on 06/24/2025 11:23:28 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

A group claims to have “footage showing Iran pulling out the nuclear materials from Fordow two days ago”

https://trt.global/world/article/39eb19713bb9


13 posted on 06/24/2025 11:23:33 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The operative word here is control.

Aside from the fact the enriched uranium is almost certainly buried beyond reach as a result of the American MOP’s, Iranian control was already eradicated by numerous IDF hits on all sorts of nuclear related targets. Those targets include the very personell who were developing the uranium enrichment and all phases of bomb development.

Iran had already “lost control” of the bomb making as a result of systematic IDF destruction. The current Iranian claims about resumption are just fatuous nonsense.


14 posted on 06/24/2025 11:26:32 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Ye


15 posted on 06/24/2025 11:28:40 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: Brian Griffin

If the uranium at the sites were really evacuated, do you really think they would tell us?


16 posted on 06/24/2025 11:28:47 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

At least you got your screen name right …


17 posted on 06/24/2025 11:29:16 AM PDT by eastsider
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To: stanne

Do we know the centrifuges are kaput? Is it possible to move them? If so the story might not be over.


18 posted on 06/24/2025 11:30:41 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Brian Griffin

It really doesn’t matter.

Iran can’t do anything with it because all the downstream bomb development capability is obliterated. The 60% enriched uranium cannot be enriched further nor converted into a bomb for the simple reason there are no facilities nor knowledgeable people left to do so.


19 posted on 06/24/2025 11:32:10 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: bert

I hope you are right. I believe it was better to attack than wait and do nothing.


20 posted on 06/24/2025 11:34:12 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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