Kuwait’s military says its air defences working to intercept missiles – as it happened

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Trump has claimed that Iran was right at the doorstep" of gaining a nuclear weapon.

Earlier on Wednesday the president said he did not care about Iran's stock of highly enriched uranium (HEU), arguing it was deep underground and could be monitored by satellite.

From the very beginning my campaign for president in 2015, I said I would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This regime has been chanting death to America, death to Israel.