The United States will be “out of Iran pretty quickly” and can return for “spot hits” if needed, President Donald Trump tells Reuters hours before a scheduled primetime address to the nation.

Trump, in a phone interview with Reuters, says one element of his speech would be to express his disgust with Nato for what he considers the alliance’s lack of support for US objectives in Iran.

He says he is “absolutely” considering an attempt to withdraw the United States from Nato, a treaty organisation ratified by the US Senate in 1949.

They haven’t been friends when we needed them,” Trump says. “We’ve never asked them for much … it’s a one-way street.”

Asked when the United States would consider the Iran war over, Trump has replied: “I can’t tell you exactly …. we’re going to be out pretty quickly.”

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