President Donald Trump vowed on Thursday that the United States will eventually recover Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium despite comments from ‌Iran that it ​will not hand over the material.

“We will get it. ⁠We don’t need it, we ​don’t want it. We’ll probably destroy it ⁠after we get it, but we’re not going to let them have it,” Trump ‌told reporters at the ​White House. Iran is ‌believed to possess about 900 pounds ‌of highly enriched uranium, which Trump says was buried by U.S. and ⁠Israeli airstrikes nearly a ‌year ago.

Retrieving ⁠the uranium is part of Trump’s ⁠central ⁠objective of his war on Iran that Tehran ‌will not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.

Iran’s Supreme Leader has issued ‌a ​directive that ‌the country’s near-weapons-grade uranium should not be sent abroad, two senior Iranian ​sources told Reuters.