US President Donald Trump has said in an interview aired today that it would only take two weeks to hit “every single target” in Iran, adding that the Islamic Republic was “militarily defeated,” AFP reports.

In the interview with independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson, which was recorded last week, he also called NATO a “paper tiger” and accused Washington’s allies of failing to assist in the campaign against Tehran.

“They’re militarily defeated. In their own minds, maybe they don’t know that. But I think they do,” Trump said in the interview, before adding: “That doesn’t mean they’re done.”

He suggested the US military could “go in for two more weeks and do every single target. We have certain targets that we wanted, and we’ve done probably 70 per cent of them, but we have other targets that we could conceivably hit.” “But even if we didn’t do that, you know, that would just be final touches,” Trump said.