UPDATE:
IRAN DENIES REPORT OF NEW URANIUM ORDER
A senior Iranian official denied claims that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei issued an order requiring enriched uranium to remain inside Iran, calling the reports “enemy propaganda.”
The official said no new directive has been issued,…
— *Walter Bloomberg (@DeItaone) May 21, 2026
440.9 kg of 60 percent enriched uranium stays inside Iran despite Trump and Netanyahu push…
Iranian sources and officials hide full stockpile details while spinning deep suspicion on US truce…
Trump and Bibi want the stuff shipped out but Tehran just digs in deeper every time…
The supreme leader just killed the fantasy of a diplomatic exit by ordering that all near-weapons-grade uranium stays exactly where it is…
This a blunt, total rejection of the White House’s central demand in the ceasefire negotiations…
Futures are bleeding out in real-time because the “peace” narrative just got liquidated, and investors are starting to realize the Strait of Hormuz is back in play…
Washington keeps demanding the stockpile be surrendered for the sake of “security,” and the regime just told them they’d sooner burn the deal to the ground…
Oil traders are finally waking up from their delusion that a ceasefire was imminent, and the panic-buying is going to hit the pump fast…
It’s maddening to watch the suits in D.C. spin fairy tales about a breakthrough while the regime was busy hardening its position behind our backs…
Supreme Leader says enriched uranium must stay in Iran, Iranian sources say
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s order could further frustrate US President Donald Trump and complicate talks on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has issued a directive that the country’s near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian sources said, hardening Tehran’s stance on one of the main US demands at peace talks.
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei’s order could further frustrate US President Donald Trump and complicate talks on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran.
Israeli officials have told Reuters that Trump has assured Israel that Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, needed to make an atomic weapon, will be sent out of Iran and that any peace deal must include a clause on this.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will not consider the war over until enriched uranium is removed from Iran, Tehran ends its support for proxy militias, and its ballistic missile capabilities are eliminated.
“The Supreme Leader’s directive, and the consensus within the establishment, is that the stockpile of enriched uranium should not leave the country,” said one of the two Iranian sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.