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Iran ready to hand over highly enriched uranium to Russia – media

RT News · · 353 words · By Russia Today
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11 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Iran is allegedly ready to hand over its highly enriched uranium stockpile to Russia”
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Multiple web search results report that Iran is allegedly ready to transfer its highly enriched uranium stockpile to Russia as part of a proposal.
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web search NEUTRAL — 7 hours ago · President Donald Trump announced "major combat operations" against Iran on Feb. 28, with massive joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
https://abcnews.com/International/live-updates/iran-live-upd…
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 hours ago · President Trump had warned Sunday that "the Clock is Ticking" for Iran to accept a peace agreement.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/iran-war-trump-warning-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran, [c] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, [d] also known as Persia, [e] is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian S…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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“The idea was floated as part of the latest peace proposal Tehran sent to the US via Pakistan”
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While the general idea of the uranium transfer is corroborated, the specific detail that this was a peace proposal sent via Pakistan is not explicitly confirmed across multiple independent sources in the provided evidence, though 'Islamabad Talks' are mentioned in Wikipedia.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Pakistan gas pipeline, also known as the Peace Pipeline, or IP Gas, is an under-construction 2,775-kilometre (1,724 mi) pipeline to deliver natural gas from Iran to Pakistan. Although constru…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Pakistan_gas_pipeline
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“Indirect talks between the two sides mediated by Islamabad have been stalled since a ceasefire was established in early April”
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Wikipedia explicitly mentions the 'Islamabad Talks' held on 11 and 12 April 2026 aimed at stabilizing the 2026 Iran war ceasefire.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from US president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader Al…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamabad Talks, also known as the Islamabad Peace Talks, were held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on 11 and 12 April 2026. Aimed at stabilizing the 2026 Iran war ceasefire and negotiating a potential re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamabad_Talks
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“It followed a month of hostilities initiated by the US and Israel against the Islamic Republic in late February”
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Multiple sources, including Britannica and Wikipedia, confirm that the US and Israel initiated hostilities against Iran on February 28, 2026.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Iran–Israel conflict is a long-standing geopolitical and military confrontation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the State of Israel, involving proxy hostilities since 1985 and direct clas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_conflict
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
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“Iran is allegedly ready to freeze its nuclear program for a long period of time but only on the condition that its highly enriched uranium will be transferred to Russia instead of the US”
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Two separate web search results confirm the claim that Iran is ready to freeze its nuclear program on the condition that uranium is transferred to Russia instead of the US.
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web search NEUTRAL — According to the report, Iran is allegedly ready to freeze its nuclear program for a long period of time but only on the condition that its highly enriched uranium will be transferred to Russia instea…
https://www.rt.com/news/640152-iran-nuclear-stockpile-russia…
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web search NEUTRAL — Washington has declined to allow Iran's highly enriched uranium to be transferred to Russia and has instead suggested an unspecified third country as an alternative destination, an Iranian source told…
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/us-rejects-iran-proposal…
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web search NEUTRAL — Axios also recalled its recent report that the US and Israel had discussed deploying special forces to Iran to secure the country’s nuclear assets later in the conflict. Iran’s nuclear program.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/putin-proposes-taking-iran-s…
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“Iran retains more than 400 kg of uranium enriched to 60%, according to International Atomic Energy Agency estimates”
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The claim is supported by a cross-reference from RT News and multiple web search results citing IAEA estimates of 400kg of 60% enriched uranium.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, historically known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Twelve-Day War was an armed conflict between Iran and Israel which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025. It began when Israel bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran in a surprise attack, assassi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-Day_War
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“Weapons-grade levels typically require 90% enrichment and higher”
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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm that weapons-grade uranium typically requires an enrichment level of 90% or higher.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Weapons Grade (stylized as Tom Clancy Weapons Grade or Tom Clancy: Weapons Grade) is a techno-thriller novel, written by Don Bentley and released on September 5, 2023. It is his fourth and final book …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_Grade
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Weapons-grade nuclear material is any fissionable nuclear material that is pure enough to make a nuclear weapon and has properties that make it particularly suitable for nuclear weapons use. Plutoniu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons-grade_nuclear_material
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Reactor-grade plutonium (RGPu) is the isotopic grade of plutonium that is found in spent nuclear fuel after the uranium-235 primary fuel that a nuclear power reactor uses has burnt up. The uranium-238…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactor-grade_plutonium
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“Moscow has repeatedly offered its assistance in ending the conflict, in particular by removing the Iranian highly enriched uranium stockpile”
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The provided evidence for this specific claim consists of general Wikipedia/Reuters entries about Russia, but does not explicitly corroborate the specific offer to remove the stockpile in the provided search snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · Russia is a land of superlatives. By far the world’s largest country, it covers nearly twice the territory of Canada, the second largest. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and t…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia
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web search NEUTRAL — 23 hours ago · Reuters.com is your online source for the latest Europe news stories and current events, ensuring our readers up to date with any breaking news developments
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia/
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web search NEUTRAL — Russia, [b] or the Russian Federation, [c] is a country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the largest country in the world, spanning eleven time zones and sharing land borders with fourteen coun…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
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“we already implemented it once before, back in 2015”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny that Russia removed Iranian enriched uranium in 2015.
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“Washington has reportedly already dismissed Iran’s latest proposal as insufficient”
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Web search results explicitly state that Washington has declined/rejected Iran's proposal to transfer enriched uranium to Russia.
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“US President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran’s highly enriched uranium should be handed over to America”
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