Washington, April 1 (Reuters): The United States will be “out of Iran pretty ‌quickly” and could return for “spot hits” if needed, President Donald Trump told Reuters on Wednesday, hours before he was scheduled to make a primetime address to the nation. With the war in its fifth week and Trump under pressure for an off-ramp amid rising gasoline ​prices, the president scheduled a 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT) speech to discuss the way forward. His address ​will bookend a day that begins with Trump making a historic visit to the Supreme ⁠Court. Trump, in a phone interview with Reuters,

Vienna (AP): Should the U.S. decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers, according to experts and former government officials. U.S. President Donald Trump has offered shifting reasons for the war in Iran but has consistently said a primary objective is ensuring the country will “never have a nuclear weapon.” Less clear is how far he is willing to go to seize Iran’s nuclear material. Given the risks of inserting as many as 1,000 specially trained forces into a war zone to