India, July 7 -- US President Donald Trump warned that the United States will either strike a nuclear deal with Iran or "finish the job" militarily, reviving the threat of renewed strikes after indirect talks between Washington and Tehran collapsed without progress and Iranian officials used the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to project defiance rather than retreat.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the choice facing Iran remains stark. "We're either going to make a deal, or we're going to finish the job," he said, adding that military action would not be difficult to carry out but that he would prefer to avoid it because of the toll it would take on Iran's roughly 91 million citizens. The remarks, de...