Jane Darby Menton,
a fellow in the nuclear policy program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.A member of the Iraqi Federal Police stands guard near the Seventeen Ramadan Mosque along al-Firdous square in Baghdad on March 9, 2023.A member of the Iraqi Federal Police stands guard near the Seventeen Ramadan Mosque along al-Firdous square in Baghdad on March 9, 2023. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images
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June 27, 2025, 12:01 AM
On Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that U.S. and Israeli military operations had effectively closed the Iran nuclear file: “The only thing we’d be asking for [in future talks with Iran] is what we were asking for before, about ‘we want no nuclear’—but we destroyed the nuclear.” Yet even if the president’s claims that Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities have been “completely and totally obliterated” prove to be correct (and this is far from guaranteed), the recent conflict has ushered in a period of significant nuclear uncertainty, which threatens to fester if not swiftly addressed.
Iran’s nuclear program has clearly been damaged, although it is too early to know just how badly. Other developments are less reassuring. Iran appears to have retained custody over its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, likely enough to fuel multiple bombs if further enriched. As U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told ABC News on Sunday, “We are going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel, and that’s one of the things that we’re going to have conversations with the Iranians about.”
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