Washington, March 2 -- Reiterating his call to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, US President Donald Trump has said that he is mulling a boots-on-the-ground approach for the Islamic Republic to prevent the regime's covert designs for obtaining nukes, something which Tehran has repeatedly denied.

"I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground. Like every president says, 'There will be no boots on the ground.' I don't say it.

"I say, 'probably don't need them,' [or] 'if they were necessary.'"When asked on the timeline for the operation in Iran, Trump told New York Post that it was "going to go pretty quickly," adding "We're right on schedule, way ahead of schedule in terms of [Iranian] leadership - 49 killed - and that...