According to a report by the US news website Axios on the 13th, during a phone call on the 9th between US President Trump and Russian President Putin, Putin proposed transferring Iran’s enriched uranium to Russia to help quickly end the hostilities, but Trump rejected the proposal.
The report, quoting sources, said that Putin offered several suggestions for ending the hostilities, including transferring Iran’s enriched uranium to Russia as part of a possible agreement between the US and Iran.
A US official pointed out that this is not the first time the Russian side has made this proposal, but the US side has never accepted it.
The report noted that during indirect nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran in May last year, as well as several weeks before the US launched a large-scale military operation against Iran this time, the Russian side made similar proposals.
The US official said: “The US position is that we must ensure the safety of this enriched uranium.”
According to US media reports, during the indirect nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran held before the US launched strikes in February this year, the Iranian side refused to transfer enriched uranium abroad, while the US side demanded that all remaining Iranian enriched uranium be shipped to the United States.