US President Donald Trump has paused a plan by the military to forcibly seize Iran’s enriched uranium, CNN reported Friday, citing sources. The US military’s top officer made a secret, hurried trip to US Central Command headquarters in Florida late last month to receive an in-person briefing on plans for a potential ground operation in Iran aimed at seizing the country’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, according to the report. The briefings were considered so urgent and sensitive that Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cut short a meeting of senior NATO officials in Brussels and flew back to Tampa on May 19, the report said. READ: Trump calls Iranian foreign minister’s post on possible US-Iran deal […]
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Read Full Article on Middle East Monitor →![A worker walks inside of an uranium conversion facility, part of Iran's Nuclear Power Programme, on March 30, 2005 just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran [Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/GettyImages-52511075.jpg)
