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‘Not going to let them have it’: Trump insists US ‘will get’ Iran’s enriched uranium
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US President Donald Trump speaks during an event about loosening a federal refrigerant rule, in the Oval Office at the White House, May 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
US President Donald Trump says that the United States does not want tolls on the Strait of Hormuz and will retrieve Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
“We will get it. We don’t need it, we don’t want it. We’ll probably destroy it after we get it, but we’re not going to let them have it,” Trump tells reporters at the White House.
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