United States President Donald Trump reiterated on Thursday that the US will not permit Iran to keep its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.However, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has issued a directive that Iran’s enriched uranium should not be sent abroad, the Reuters news agency reported on Thursday, citing two unnamed senior Iranian sources.The future of the estimated 440kg (970lb) of uranium enriched to 60 percent that Iran is believed to be holding remains a chief sticking point in peace negotiations between the US and Iran.While uranium enriched to 60 percent is still far short of the 90 percent required for weapons-grade material, it is the point at which it becomes much quicker to reach 90 percent, nuclear experts say.But even if Iran were to agree to transferring it, can highly enriched uranium be moved between countries safely?Here’s what we know.What have Trump and Khamenei said about the enriched uranium stockpile?“We will get it. We don’t need it, we don’t want it. We’ll probably destroy it after we get it, but we’re not going to let them have it,” Trump said about Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile when he spoke to reporters at the White House on Thursday.However, the same day, Reuters reported that Iran’s supreme leader had issued a directive prohibiting the removal of t …
