President Trump said in a phone interview that Iran has “agreed to everything,” and will work with the U.S. to remove enriched uranium from Iran.
He insisted that doing so will not involve U.S. ground troops. But when asked who would retrieve it, he would only say “our people.”
“No. No troops,” he said. “We’ll go down and get it with them, and then we’ll take it. We’ll be getting it together because by that time, we’ll have an agreement and there’s no need for fighting when there’s an agreement. Nice right? That’s better. We would have done it the other way if we had to.”
He said that the material would be brought to the U.S.
“Our people, together with the Iranians are going to work together to go get it. And then we’ll take it to the United States,” he said.
The president also said Iran has agreed to stop backing proxy terrorist groups, like Hezbollah and Hamas.
When asked when he would be announcing the deal, Mr. Trump said the two sides are meeting this weekend and that the U.S. would continue its blockade “until we get it done.”