India, July 9 -- US President Donald Trump will not fly his new $400 million Air Force One out of Turkey as originally planned, opting instead to send the Qatari-gifted jet to Europe rather than risk flying it home amid a sudden reescalation of the conflict with Iran, he told reporters Wednesday at the NATO summit in Ankara.

Speaking at a press conference alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump confirmed the plane's flight plan had changed but stopped short of directly attributing the decision to Iranian threats. "The life of a president is very dangerous," Trump said when asked whether security concerns tied to Iran were behind the shift, calling the presidency itself a "very dangerous profession."

He said the jet would inst...