Trump says Iran did not move any enriched uranium before the U.S. airstrikes

President Trump is rejecting the idea that Iran was able to move enriched uranium before the U.S. airstrikes on its nuclear facilities.

Mr. Trump said the mission was too stealthy for the Iranian regime to see it coming.

“We didn’t give much notice because they didn’t know we were coming until just, you know, then, and nobody thought we’d go after that site because everybody said that site is impenetrable,” the president said in a pre-recorded interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” “They didn’t move anything.”

“You know, they moved themselves, they were all trying to live, they didn’t move anything,” he said.

Since the U.S. airstrikes on the Iranian facilities, including Fordo, a debate has raged over the scale of the damage and over whether Iran had already moved its stockpile of enriched uranium.

Mr. Trump has maintained that the stockpile was destroyed.

Meanwhile, The New York Times and other news outlets reported that the fate of Iran’s nuclear stockpile remains a mystery.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said it is “too early to tell” whether Iran has given up on its ambitions for nuclear power.

Mr. Graham said he believes the strike set the program back a couple of years, but said he is not sure what happened to the 900 pounds of enriched uranium.

“I don’t know if it is at the bottom of Fordo, or some other site, but it is still out there,” Mr. Graham said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Asked whether that concerns him, Mr. Graham said, “Oh, definitely,” before warning that the biggest issue is the nation’s leadership.

“But the question for the world: does the regime still desire to make a nuclear weapon? The answer is yes,” Mr. Graham said. “Do they still desire to destroy Israel and come after us? The answer is yes.”

“Until that changes, we’re in trouble,” he said.