CNN, citing five sources familiar with US intelligence, reports that in recent weeks Iran has sharply hardened storage of its near‑weapons‑grade highly enriched uranium (HEU), deliberately collapsing tunnels and planting explosive mines at entrances, making physical access more difficult, dangerous and time‑consuming than about a month ago. About a month earlier then‑President Trump had publicly suggested he might order US forces to seize the material; Iran’s measures complicate any removal‑and‑

CNN, citing five sources familiar with US intelligence, reports that in recent weeks Iran has sharply hardened storage of its near‑weapons‑grade highly enriched uranium (HEU), deliberately collapsing tunnels and planting explosive mines at entrances, making physical access more difficult, dangerous and time‑consuming than about a month ago. About a month earlier then‑President Trump had publicly suggested he might order US forces to seize the material; Iran’s measures complicate any removal‑and‑destroy agreement and raise who would assume the hazardous excavation. Even Iranian personnel would face a hazardous retrieval requiring heavy excavation equipment and demining.