Trump boasts US can handle remaining Iran targets 'in 10 minutes'

Donald Trump said there are still one or two targets in Iran that need to be "taken care of," expressing confidence that the US could do so in just 10 minutes.

Speaking to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Saturday (local time), Trump said the US had neutralized a significant portion of Iran's military capabilities. "There are still one or two places that need to be taken care of, but we can do it in 10 minutes," Trump said, according to Yonhap.

Trump identified the site known as "Pickaxe Mountain" — widely described as a key underground nuclear facility in Iran — as one of the remaining targets.

"We can take care of it very quickly," Trump added.

On negotiations with Iran through intermediaries, Trump said talks were "going well," but added: "They're not very trustworthy. We'll see if they make a deal."

The remarks came shortly after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at the G20 foreign ministers' meeting on Saturday (local time) that Trump had not yet decided whether to strike Iran again and that the president preferred a diplomatic resolution.

Earlier, Rubio told reporters on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta that Washington had not yet made a decision on further military action. "I'm not going to comment on what the US will or will not do militarily," Rubio said. "No decision has been made."

Rubio said the situation was "about the fact that the United States still has the most powerful military on the planet" and that the US could achieve its military objectives "if we want to."

However, Rubio said the president did not prefer that approach. "If he did, he would have done it weeks or months ago. The president prefers a diplomatic resolution," Rubio said.

On negotiations with Iran over ending the conflict, Rubio said talks had "never actually stopped." "Sometimes we negotiate directly, but often there is active dialogue through intermediaries," Rubio said.