Washington DC, March 3 -- As escalations widen across West Asia, US Vice-President JD Vance on Tuesday (local time) said President Donald Trump decided to take action against Iran in order to protect America's national security.

He made the remarks in an interview with Fox News. Vance said that Trump had determined to ensure America remains safe not only for a few years during his tenure as the President, but to ensure that Iran could never' to have a nuclear weapon.

He said, "What the president determined is he didn't want to just keep the country safe from an Iranian nuclear weapon for the first three, four years of his second term. He wanted to make sure that Iran could never have a nuclear weapon, and that would require fundamentall...