{"id":476923,"date":"2026-06-05T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/476923\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:44:14","slug":"donald-trump-us-doesnt-need-a-deal-to-get-irans-enriched-uranium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/476923\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: US ‘doesn’t need a deal’ to get Iran’s enriched uranium"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get enriched uranium from the country.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

Trump also said that he did not want to meet with Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.<\/a><\/p>\n

But he added that if Washington and Tehran reached a deal, the two might meet, and said, “If it happened … I’d be respectful.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal, citing several US officials, reported that Trump told aides will only end the ceasefire with Iran<\/a> if Tehran kills American troops.<\/p>\n

\"AA US Air Force F-22 Raptor fighter jet climbs after taking off from the former Roosevelt Roads naval base, after the U.S. struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, January 4, 2026. (credit: REUTERS\/RICARDO ARDUENGO)<\/p>\n

Recent strikes by Tehran targeting US bases in the Middle East have reportedly upped the pressure on the president, as well as cast doubt on whether the ceasefire can hold.<\/p>\n

However, Trump\u2019s hesitation to scale the US\u2019s defensive strikes into a full-scale war has indicated he may be willing to stomach Iran\u2019s attacks to avoid escalation, according to WSJ.<\/p>\n

Trump says he thinks progress is being made on Lebanon<\/p>\n

On the matter of Lebanon, Trump told reporters that he believed progress was being made between Israel and Lebanon and that Lebanon deserved to have peace.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he had spoken to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> and “I actually spoke to Hezbollah about it.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “And I think progress is made. It’s been going on for a long time, you know,” he said.<\/p>\n

Trump’s comments follow a Wednesday US State Department statement that Israel and Lebanon had agreed on the implementation of a ceasefire as a result of the US-led negotiations.<\/p>\n

The ceasefire, the statement read, was conditional on a complete halt to Hezbollah fire, and the evacuation of all its operatives from the area south of the Litani.<\/p>\n

It was further stated that the two sides had agreed to establish “pilot zones” in which the Lebanese army would have exclusive control over the area, with no presence of any non-state actor.<\/p>\n

These steps, the State Department announced, would “enable progress towards a comprehensive peace and security agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hezbollah rejects the ceasefire<\/p>\n

On Thursday, however, Hezbollah rejected the plan<\/a> agreed upon by Israel and Lebanon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said the negotiations were shameless, rejecting the Washington declaration as “a roadmap for the annihilation of a section of the Lebanese people and the enslavement of the rest.”<\/p>\n

“As long as the occupation exists, the resistance will continue,” he said in a written statement.<\/p>\n

Idan Kweller, Shir Perets, Corinne Baum, and Tzvi Jasper contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Thursday said that Washington did not need a deal with Iran to get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,86,87,142930,92,88,159370,43,157282,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-476923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-lebanon","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}