Trump says Iran nuclear materials site is under Space Force surveillance, threatens to 'blow up' intruders
Donald Trump told journalist Sharyl Attkisson the United States has Iran's nuclear materials site "very well surveilled" via Space Force and would "blow up" anyone who approached it, in an interview released on Sunday. The president said US forces had hit "probably 70 percent" of targets they intended to strike in the war that began on 28 February and could resume operations "for two more weeks" to finish the list. The remarks landed the same day Iran routed its formal reply to the latest US ceasefire proposal through Pakistani mediators, with talks aimed at securing safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
President Donald Trump said the United States has the site of Iran's nuclear materials "very well surveilled" and threatened to attack anyone attempting to reach it, in remarks from a Sharyl Attkisson interview that were released on Sunday. "If somebody walked in, they can tell you his name, his address, the number of his badge," Trump said, citing Space Force capabilities. "If anybody got near the place, we will know about it and we'll blow them up."
Trump said US forces would take possession of the materials "at some point. Whenever we want." He claimed Washington had struck "probably 70 percent" of the targets it had identified for the campaign that opened on 28 February alongside Israel, and said the United States "could go in for two more weeks and do every single target." Reconstruction at the level of damage already inflicted, he said, would take Iran two decades. "We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon because they're crazy. We cannot let them have access to nuclear," he added, while conceding the Iranian programme had been weakened but not entirely eliminated.
The interview ran the same Sunday that Iran transmitted its response to the latest US proposal for ending the war, using Pakistani mediators to carry the document. The fighting is currently on hold; the talks are aimed at a permanent settlement that would secure safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz and lock in a halt to operations.
Trump's threat is the most explicit statement to date that US forces will physically intervene against anyone — Iranian personnel, IAEA inspectors or otherwise — who tries to access what remains of the stockpile. He has spent the past week framing the negotiations as productive: on 5 May he urged Tehran to "do the smart thing," and on 7 May he called a deal "very possible" while Iran reviewed the US text. The same week US warships transited the Strait of Hormuz under fire and Trump issued a separate warning to Tehran. Sunday's remarks combine that diplomatic posture with a public commitment to use force to police the surviving site, even as the response from Tehran is still being read in Islamabad and Washington.