New Delhi, June 7 -- President Donald Trump said the United States is prepared to work alongside Iran to retrieve and destroy its stockpile of highly enriched uranium if a peace agreement is reached to end the three-month-old conflict between the two countries.

Speaking to NBC News, Trump said the US would oversee the process directly.

"If we make a deal that now we're friendly, we'll all go together. It'll be our equipment. We'll take it out and destroy it, whether it's on-site or whether we take it off-site," Trump was quoted as saying.

Trump added that if negotiations fail, the US would further weaken Iran militarily before securing the material independently.

"And we will go with them, or without them. But we won't have people sho...