Iran has, in recent weeks, deliberately collapsed tunnels and mined entrances to its bombed Isfahan nuclear complex in a bid to stop the US from launching a raid to retrieve the Islamic Republic’s store of highly enriched uranium that is believed to be buried at the site, CNN reported Saturday.

The report, citing five sources familiar with US intelligence, said that it would now be far more difficult and dangerous for anyone, including the Iranians, to retrieve the uranium than it was at the start of the war, when US President Donald Trump mulled a ground operation to seize the nuclear stockpile.

The fate of the enriched stockpile is one of the key issues in an emerging potential deal between Iran and the US to end the war.

A former senior nuclear official told CNN that the Iranian move also raised the risk that Tehran could claim it was unable to retrieve some of the material.

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