Iran-US war latest: Trump says US could end conflict without a deal as Houthis launch missile barrage at Israel

President Donald Trump has said the United States is considering pulling out of Nato after a lack of support from allies amid the ongoing Iran war, according to the Telegraph.

Earlier, we reported comments by secretary of state Marco Rubio that America would reconsider its relationship to the alliance after the conflict had ended.

“Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration,” he told the paper when asked if he would reconsider membership.

“I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”

Speaking to Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet on Monday, he said: “According to the defence investigation that was completed last year, I will be ready for war by the end of this decade.”

The United States is to reconsider its relationship with Nato once the Iran war is over, secretary of state Marco Rubio has said.

“We’re going to have to reexamine the value of Nato and that alliance for our country,” Rubio told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Tuesday.

“If Nato is just about us defending Europe if they’re attacked, but them denying us basing rights when we need them, that’s not a very good arrangement. That’s a hard one to stay engaged in.”

President Donald Trump has repeatedly hit out at Nato throughout the war for what he has perceived as a lack of support during the conflict. Countries in the alliance have largely declined to enter the fighting.

The UK has been allowing the United States to use RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to launch operations against Iran – something Seyed Ali Mousavi described as being “very unfortunate”.

Speaking to Times Radio, he said: “The initial position made by prime minister Starmer is very good.

“We do appreciate [it], we do welcome the non-involvement in this criminal act of the American side and the Israeli regime.

“But unfortunately, now we have realised that the British Fairford military base has been serving for the B2 and B1, you know, jets of the American side to be equipped by the different weapons to use against the Iranian people. It’s very unfortunate.”

The Independent’s political correspondent Millie Cooke reports:

Oil prices have dropped after President Donald Trump announced that the US-Israeli war against Iran would end “very soon”, and suggested it could be as soon as two or three weeks.

Prices have fallen 3 per cent to just above $100 a barrel, but remain 39 per cent higher than before the war.

Qatar has also claimed it was targeted by three Iranian missiles on Wednesday.

A statement from the defence ministry on X says two cruise missiles were intercepted but a third struck an oil tanker in its waters.

The tanker, carrying a crew of 21, was evacuated without any casualties reported.

Yemen’s Houthis have claimed a joint attack on Israel with missiles they say was carried out in conjunction with Iran and Hezbollah.