Macron: Iran's enriched uranium should be 'neutralized'

Iran's stocks of enriched uranium need to be neutralized and placed under the supervision of the UN atomic agency, French President Emmanuel Macron says, Report informs via The Times of Israel.

"We will ensure that the enriched uranium capabilities that remain are properly neutralized," Macron says after US President Donald Trump announced a deal with Iran. The sensitive stocks should be "either taken out, or diluted" and then looked after by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Macron says.

Macron vows ahead of the G7 summit in France that "we will do everything" to ensure Iran imposes no tolls on the key Strait of Hormuz shipping channel.

Speaking to TF1 TV hours after a deal was agreed between Iran and the United States to end the Middle East war, Macron says a joint France-UK mission to ensure the Strait opens is prepared to deploy "very quickly," with the French flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle ready to be in the zone "on a timescale of two to three days."