DONALD Trump has slammed “terrible” Nato after taking a fresh swipe at Britain – but the US president says he isn’t ready to give up on freeing the Strait of Hormuz yet.
It comes after Trump launched a fresh attack on the UK for keeping its hands clean of the ongoing war with Iran, despite a deepening fuel shortage crisis.
The president repeated his scathing criticism of Nato, branding the alliance “terrible” and reiterating his call for countries to join the war.
Washington has poured countless resources into the weeks-long mission to release the vital 24-mile waterway from the regime’s bloody claws, with oil prices shooting up with every day Tehran maintains a foothold.
Trump’s tirades would suggest that US forces may be imminently withdrawing from the Persian Gulf, with the president demanding allied spectators go in and get their own fuel.
But he today confirmed that American military assets would continue fighting to reopen the shipping lane and will not be pulled out of the mission entirely.
“At some point I will, not quite yet,” Trump told CBS.
“But countries have to come in and take care of it.
“Iran has been decimated, but they’re going to have to come in and do their own work.”
Trump claimed that despite Tehran continuing to fire at ships passing through the strait, there’s “no substantial threat” as the reeling regime’s military has been “decimated”.
“If they’re having a hard time getting oil, let them come and take it like they’re supposed to,” he said of the US’ allies.
“They didn’t want to give a hand to anybody. NATO is terrible, and they’re all terrible.
“So if they want oil, come up and grab it.
“It’s about time they did something for themselves.”
It comes after Trump blasted Nato allies as “cowards” for failing to help him unblock the strait.
Trump was non-committal about when US forces would be withdrawn, telling CBS: “It won’t be long, I would say we are two weeks ahead of schedule.”
“We’ve done our job. It’ll take them 10 years to rebuild.
“We’ve had total regime change. These are different people than anyone has ever heard of before, and frankly they’ve been more reasonable.”
The president had previously set a four to six week deadline for the war to be over, but it has already entered week five.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has proposed that a multi-national consortium take over the Strait of Hormuz once hostilities are over, according to The Telegraph.
At a meeting with G7 foreign leaders, Rubio stressed that there would be “no fees, and free circulation” after the intervention.
Trump, meanwhile, posted a video on Truth Social earlier today showing enormous 2,000lb bunker buster bombs tearing through an Iranian ammo depot as he looks to finish the job.
An enormous mushroom cloud is seen billowing into the sky as a devastating inferno takes hold of the ammunition factory in Isfahan, Iran‘s third-most populous city.
Isfahan has been the target of repeated strikes from US-Israeli forces over the monthlong conflict.
It is a strategic hub that holds the majority of Iran’s 60 per cent enriched uranium, military bases, and one of several underground “missile cities”.
The city is home to one of three uranium enrichment sites that were bombed by the US in the 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel last June.
A satellite capture taken just days before the blitz suggests Tehran rushed to hide a truckload of highly enriched uranium in an underground facility.
It is believed that much of the reeling regime’s missile arsenal is now entombed in subterranean bases as the mad mullahs seek to retain at least some of their military might.
