Iran’s enriched uranium on Trump’s target? US President clears intent on his ‘primary aim’ of launching war in Middle East

United States President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday evening (April 1, 2026) with the US-Iran war in the middle of the fifth week, offering an update on the progress made toward achieving his goals in the war. Hours before the address, Trump, in a phone interview with Reuters, said that the primary aim of launching the war was to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

The United States will be "out of Iran pretty quickly" and could return for "spot hits" if needed, Trump told Reuters on Wednesday (April 1, 2026), hours before he was scheduled to make a primetime address to the nation about the war.

Almost half of Iran's uranium, enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was ⁠stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, the U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said earlier, as reported by Reuters.


The tunnel complex is the only target that appears not to have been badly damaged in attacks last June by Israel and the U.S. on Iran's nuclear facilities. Trump said the objective of preventing a nuclear weapon has been achieved, however.

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Of the enriched uranium, Trump said: "That's so far ⁠underground, I don't care about that." "We'll always be watching it by satellite," he added. He said Iran was "incapable" of developing a weapon now. Iran has long denied wanting to develop a nuclear weapon and says its nuclear program is peaceful.

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimated that when Israel launched its first attacks in June, Iran had 440.9 kg of 60% uranium. If enriched further, that would provide the explosive needed for 10 nuclear weapons, Reuters reported, according to an IAEA yardstick.