WASHINGTON, May 21 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that U.S. control of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile would be part of any potential peace deal with Iran to guarantee that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.
"We'll probably destroy it after we get it, but we're not going to let them have it," Trump said at the White House.
The U.S. president reiterated that Iran should not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon.
"Right now, we're negotiating and we'll see, but either we're going to get it one way or the other. They're not gonna have a nuclear weapon," Trump told reporters. "We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, that's all it is."
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier Thursday that there are "some good signs" during the ongoing negotiations but he does not want to be "overly optimistic."
Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, a key mediator, was expected in Tehran Thursday in attempts to broker a peace deal between the United States and Iran, according to reports reaching here. ■
