New Delhi, July 7 -- US President Donald Trump has said that he was 'very disappointed' with the response of NATO allies toward the Iran war. "I was very disappointed with NATO," Trump told reporters on Tuesday as he met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after arriving in Ankara for a NATO leaders' summit. The US President also said that he was 'testing' whether the NATO allies would support Washington in the Israel-Iran-US war.

For years, Trump has openly questioned whether America's closest allies are strong enough, loyal enough or useful enough to deserve the protection they've relied on since World War II.

Some allies' refusal to open air bases for US strikes on Iran - or to send forces to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz - has...