Trump gives Iran a "little warning" of more US strikes Wednesday night

"They'll never build a nuclear weapon under our deal, but I don't know if we're going to have a deal. We may just do it without a deal, because you know what, it's easier, because these people, what they lie and they cheat," Trump said.

In a flare-up of hostilities that pushed oil prices up sharply, Iran said it had targeted US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait after US forces struck Iranian targets in response to attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz.

The renewed hostilities have also heightened safety and security concerns around the Strait of Hormuz, with shipping data showing at least four oil and gas tankers had turned back rather than try to transit the waterway, a vital supply route.

(Reporting by Gram Slattery and Humeyra Pamuk in Ankara, Doina Chiacu in Washington; Editing by Michelle Nichols)