Trump threatens US can make Iran 'almost impossible' to rebuild

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran was on the verge of defeat, adding that American attacks on the country could make it "almost impossible" to rebuild".

"They are pretty much at the end of the line," he told reporters in Washington. "We can hit sections of Tehran and other places that if you do it, it'll be almost impossible for them to rebuild their country, and we don't want that."

The US president also added that the US was "going to look very strongly at the straits".

"We're just riding free range over that country, and now we're going to look very strongly at the straits. The straits are in great shape."