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No deal required, Trump says of Iran's enriched uranium

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.

A block with the symbol, atomic number and mass number of Uranium (U) element © Mena Today 

A block with the symbol, atomic number and mass number of Uranium (U) element © Mena Today 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.

"We could get it right now. I don't think they could stop us if we wanted, but there's no reason to. It's entombed," he told reporters in the Oval Office.

Trump also said that he did not want to meet with Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

But he added that if Washington and Tehran reached a deal, it was possible that the two would meet and added: "If it happened ... I'd be respectful".

Reporting by Costas Pitas and Daphne Psaledakis

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