Donald Trump has vowed to put US troops on the ground in Iran while warning about future strikes: "The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon." Speaking on Monday (March 2), the US President said he would allow for US service members to enter Iran "if they were necessary".

"I don’t have the yips with respect to boots on the ground - like every president says, 'There will be no boots on the ground.' I don't say it," he told the New York Post. "I say 'probably don't need them,' [or] 'if they were necessary'". In a separate interview, Mr Trump alluded to major forthcoming action in Iran. "We haven’t even started hitting them hard," he told CNN. "The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon."

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