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President Trump said he won’t place pre-conditions on talks with Iran to end the standoff between the two countries but remains adamant that the Islamic Republic cannot become a nuclear power.

Asked during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” if he’d meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani or Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Trump said either one.

“It doesn’t matter to me. Here’s what I want, anything that gets you to the result. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. It’s not about the straits,” Trump said in the interview that aired Sunday.

“You know, a lot of people covered it incorrectly. They’re never mentioned. They cannot have a nuclear weapon. They’d use it. And they’re not going to have a nuclear weapon,” the president continued.

Trump said the talks would have no pre-conditions other than Tehran cannot have access to nuclear weapons.

​”​Here it is. Look, you can’t have nuclear weapons. And if you want to talk about it, good. Otherwise you can live in a shattered economy for a long time to come​,” he said, referring to the sanctions his administration has slapped on Iran.

​Trump last year withdrew from a nuclear deal brokered ​in 2015 by the Obama administration with China, Russia, France, Germany, England and the European Union.

Host Chuck Todd asked him if he wanted to negotiate a separate deal with Iran or one that includes the other world powers.

“I don’t care which, what kind of a deal. It can be separate or it could be total,” he said.​

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