Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium must be “taken out” before the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran can be considered over, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told an American broadcaster Sunday (May 10, 2026).

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“It’s not over, because there’s still nuclear material — enriched uranium — that has to be taken out of Iran. There are still enrichment sites that have to be dismantled,” Mr. Netanyahu said in an interview that aired Sunday (May 10, 2026) on the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”

“You go in and you take it out,” the Israeli leader said when asked how the uranium could be removed.

Mr. Netanyahu said U.S. President Donald Trump had a similar position.

“I’m not going to talk about military means, but the president, what President Trump has said to me — ‘I want to go in there.’”

However, Mr. Netanyahu’s statement was in contrast to Mr. Trump’s public position.

The 79-year-old Republican is under increasing domestic pressure to end the Iran war and he insists that Tehran’s nuclear program has been contained.

In an interview aired Sunday (May 10, 2026) but apparently recorded earlier, Mr. Trump said Iran was “militarily defeated” and he insisted the uranium could be removed “whenever we want.”

“We’ll get that at some point, whenever we want. We’ll have it surveilled,” he told independent television journalist Sharyl Attkisson.

“If anybody got near the place we will know about it and we’ll blow them up.”

Asked by CBS how the uranium stockpiles could be removed from Iran, Mr. Netanyahu said he would prefer an agreement.

“I think it can be done physically. That’s not the problem. If you have an agreement and you go in and you take it out, why not? That’s the best way.”

Pressed on whether there are military options to seize the hidden uranium, Mr. Netanyahu said he would not discuss such possibilities — or a timetable.

‘Wean ourselves’ off U.S. aid

Israel remains a dedicated American ally, but Mr. Netanyahu said he has told Mr. Trump that he wants U.S. tax dollars committed to Israel, currently at $3.8 billion annually, to drop to “zero” — and sooner rather than later.

“I think that it’s time that we wean ourselves from the remaining military support” from the Pentagon, he added. “Let’s start now, and do it over the next decade.”

In addition to the unresolved uranium stockpile issue, Mr. Netanyahu said there were several other war aims that had yet to be accomplished.

“There’s still proxies that Iran supports, their ballistic missiles that they still want to produce. Now, we’ve degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there and there’s work to be done.”

Mr. Netanyahu also acknowledged that he knew Beijing was assisting Iran.

“China gives a certain amount of support (to Iran), and particular components of missile manufacturing,” the Israeli leader noted. “But I can’t say more than that.”

He also spoke of optimism about how a toppled Iranian regime could mean “the end of Hezbollah,” as well as Hamas and the Houthis, “because the whole scaffolding of the terrorist proxy network that Iran built collapses if the regime in Iran collapses.”

But he stopped short of predicting such a downfall of Iran’s regime. “Is it possible? Yes. Is it guaranteed? No.”

U.S. President Donald Trump will pay an official visit to China from May 13 to 15 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Monday (May 11, 2026).

This will be the first visit to China by a U.S. president in almost nine years.

The visit comes in the midst of a prolonged U.S.-Israel war on Iran, a crisis over the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz causing a global energy crisis and the increasing tensions between the two countries over a host of issues, including Taiwan.

On Sunday (May 10, 2026), U.S. principal deputy press secretary Anna Kelly said Mr. Trump would arrive in Beijing on Wednesday (May 13, 2026) evening for what she described as a “visit of tremendous symbolic significance”.

According to Ms. Kelly, the U.S. leader will attend a welcome ceremony and a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping on Thursday (May 14, 2026), followed by a visit to the Temple of Heaven and a state banquet, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported.

The two leaders will meet again on Friday (May 15, 2026) for a bilateral tea and working lunch, she said, adding that the U.S. planned to host the Chinese leader for a reciprocal visit later this year.

Both sides announced on Sunday (May 10, 2026) that Vice-Premier He Lifeng will travel to South Korea for trade talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on May 12 and 13 in the final round of negotiations before Mr. Trump’s visit.

Mr. Trump’s visit is also taking place amid expectations of a trade deal over tariffs between the top two economies clamped by the U.S. president.

The talks would be “guided by the important consensus” reached between the two heads of state at their meeting in Busan, South Korea, and in previous phone calls and address “economic and trade issues of mutual concern”, a Chinese Commerce Ministry statement said.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday (May 3, 2026) that the United States faced a choice between an “impossible” military operation or a “bad deal” with the Islamic republic.

The war in West Asia, launched by the United States and Israel in late February, has been on hold since April 8, with one failed round of peace talks having taken place in Pakistan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, after arrival in Russia on Monday (April 27, 2026), said that his trip to Islamabad was “very productive” and involved “good consultations” with Pakistan’s top leadership, amid uncertainty over the second round of peace talks to resolve the war in West Asia.

Mr. Aragchi arrived in Russia after his second visit to Islamabad in the last three days, where he met with Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir on Sunday (April 26, 2026) evening.

Iran is offering to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz without addressing its nuclear programme, two regional officials with knowledge of the proposal said on Monday (April 27, 2026).

Iran also wants the United States to end its blockade of the country as part of its proposal, according to the two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations.