Nuclear dust: what is Trump's mysterious term and why is it impossible to extract from under the rubble?
الغبار النووي.. ما مصطلح ترمب الغامض ولماذا يستحيل استخراجه من تحت الأنقاض؟
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US President Trump is demanding the handover of what he calls nuclear dust to end the war, but experts say extracting uranium from the ruins of Isfahan is a near-impossible mission and dismiss the term as diplomatically ambiguous.
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