Iran booby-trapped the tunnels leading to its buried stockpile of enriched uranium, in a bid to prevent the US from raiding the site and stealing it.
US intelligence sources spoke to CNN and said explosive mines were placed at tunnel entrances and deliberately collapsed passageways at the nuclear facility in Isfahan, near Tehran.
President Trump is reported to have considered sending in US troops to seize the stockpile in late March.
Although the raid was abandoned, it may have forced Iran to place the explosives as a deterrent.
Over 400lbs of 60%-enriched uranium are believed to be stored in the tunnel complex at Isfahan, about half of Iran’s total reserves.
Isfahan is the only major nuclear site that has survived largely intact since the 12-day war with Israel in June 2025.
A final draft of the deal between the US and Iran, due to be signed today, contains provisions that Iran won’t produce or acquire nuclear weapons and will dilute its existing uranium stockpile.
The details provided by the Iranian official match President Trump’s claims in a Truth Social post last night.
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump said his deal with Iran is the opposite of President Obama’s, which he called an “easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now.”
“Barack Hussein Obama’s Deal with Iran, the JCPOA, was an easy, beautiful, smooth road to a Nuclear Weapon, which Iran would have had six years ago, and would have used long before now,” Trump wrote.
“My Agreement with Iran is the exact opposite, A WALL TO NO NUCLEAR WEAPON! In fact, they no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement.”
Experts worry that the boobytraps will make it harder for the uranium to be retrieved, and could allow Tehran to claim that some of the stockpile is irretrievable.
“I would worry that Iran would claim that some portion of the highly enriched uranium was irretrievable,” Scott Roecker, former head of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Nuclear Material Removal, told CNN.
“We wouldn’t have full confidence that Iran couldn’t retain access to it at some point in the future.”
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