Donald Trump has said he is not ruling out sending American ground troops into Iran "if they were necessary". Trump told the outlet he believes he did "the right thing" and argued that allowing "crazy people" to acquire a nuclear weapon would have been worse than triggering a regional conflict. "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 have to do the right thing. I have to do the right thing.

Source: Daily Mirror March 02, 2026 18:48 UTC