AP
Washington, Updated At: 02:54 PM Apr 30, 2026 IST
President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a phone call Wednesday, renewed an offer for Russia to act as a third country to take custody of Iran’s roughly 970 pounds of enriched uranium that the U.S. demands Tehran surrender.
“He told me he’d like to be involved with the enrichment — if he can help us get it,” Trump said Putin told him. “I said, I’d much rather have you be involved with ending the war with Ukraine. To me, that would be more important.”
The Kremlin warned of “dire consequences” if hostilities against Iran resume. Presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters that Putin had told the U.S. president a ground operation on Iranian territory would be completely “unacceptable and dangerous.”
