Washington DC, Feb. 25 -- Amid heightened tensions with Iran and ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran's nuclear program, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) said that US strikes "obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons programme"

This comes amidst a military build up of the US in West Asia.

Delivering his annual State of the Union Address to Congress, Trump reiterated that he will prefer to resolve the conflict through a diplomatic deal but said Tehran had not committed to not developing nuclear weapons.

Stating that Iran's has already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and US bases overseas Trump claimed Tehran was working to "build missiles that will soon reach the United S...