President Donald Trump said the U.S.will work with Iran to retrieve and destroy its highly enriched uranium if he is able to cut a deal with Tehran to end the three-month-old war between the countries — or, in the absence of an agreement, that he will further degrade the Iranian military to the point that American forces can safely collect the material on their own.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.“If we make a deal that now we’re friendly, we’ll all go together.
It’ll be our equipment.We’ll take it out and destroy it, whether it’s on-site or whether we take it off-site,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”“And we will go with them, or without them.
But we won’t have people shooting at us, okay?” Trump said.“Now, if we don’t make a deal, then we’re going to take them out militarily very harshly.
And we’ll wait till we do that before we go, in which case we’ll have safety either way.”Trump also said the U.S.could monitor the activity because it has “cameras up in space” thanks to his Space Force.“You know, we have cameras on it, all over it.
If anybody walked there, if you walked over there, I would be able to read your first name on your lapel,” he told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker.“And these are cameras up in space.
It’s pretty amazing technology.”In his most detailed remarks to date about the status of negotiations for a permanent halt to the conflict and his approach to a potential deal, Trump said he is looking to keep U.S.troops deployed in the region until “completion” and said, “I don’t consider them in danger.”The two sides are “very close” to signing a pact, Trump said, but he is pushing for Iran to go further in abandoning its nuclear ambitions.
“We have a couple of points.They don’t even seem like big points,” he said.
“They’ve conceded the fact that they will no...