BREAKING: Iran Claims To Have Enough Uranium For 11 Nukes In Its Stockpile

U.S. talks with Iran imploded after Tehran’s negotiators bluntly declared they planned to enrich uranium to levels capable of producing nuclear weapons, President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff revealed.

Witkoff said the moment stunned the American delegation during negotiations, recalling that he and Jared Kushner exchanged uneasy looks as Iranian officials laid out their position.

“The Iranians made it clear from the start that they believe they have an undeniable right to enrich all the uranium they possess,” Witkoff said in an interview with Fox News. “That was how they opened the talks.”

U.S. negotiators pushed back immediately, Witkoff said, making clear Washington believed it had the right to shut down Iran’s enrichment activities outright. Instead of backing down, Iranian officials doubled down.

“Jared and I just looked at each other and thought, ‘Is this really happening?’” Witkoff said.

The breakdown became unavoidable when Tehran rejected a U.S. proposal that would have frozen enrichment for a decade. Under the plan, the United States had offered to supply Iran with nuclear fuel at its own expense.

“That was the moment we understood they had no intention of doing anything other than enriching uranium for nuclear weapons,” Witkoff said.

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Iranian negotiators also acknowledged the scale of their nuclear stockpile during the discussions, according to Witkoff. Two officials admitted they possessed about 460 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60 percent.

Witkoff said the Iranians conceded the material could be converted into as many as 11 nuclear bombs.

“They weren’t hiding it. They were proud,” he said, adding that Iranian representatives also bragged about evading international monitoring systems while building their stockpile.

Tensions escalated sharply during a meeting last Thursday in Geneva when Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi began shouting after the American delegation repeated its demand for a ten-year halt to enrichment, NBC News reported.

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Witkoff responded coolly.

“If you prefer, I can leave,” he told Araghchi.

After the talks collapsed, the U.S. team briefed Trump on what happened. A senior administration official said the president was surprised by how openly the Iranian side pushed for enrichment.

Witkoff said the negotiations made clear Tehran had no interest in a serious compromise.

“President Trump sent us to see if Iran was serious,” he said. “But by the second meeting, it was clear a deal was impossible. We came to the third meeting in good faith, and they wanted us to project optimism. There was nothing optimistic about it.”

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