Donald Trump has ramped up fears of a potential conflict with Iran after threatening "major destruction" and sending a "massive armada" of US ships towards the Middle East.

The US president made the claims in his latest Truth Social post, where he also warned that "time is running out" for the Tehran dictatorship to drop its nuclear programme.

Describing the fleet, Trump said: "Like with Venezuela, it is, ready, willing and able to rapidly fulfil its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary."

He called on Iran's ruling regime to come to the table and negotiate a "fair and equitable deal" that would stop it from having nuclear weapons.

Simon Marks joins Andrew Marr to analyse Trump's 'threatening' TruthSocial post.