10,000 troops 'not enough' to achieve military victory in Iran
00:16 Jamie Shea, NATO's former Deputy Assistant Secretary General.
03:52 Sir Kim Darroch, former British Ambassador to the United States.
Matt Frei hears from the experts as he predicts escalation in Iran. Ten US service members have been injured in an attack on an air base in Saudi Arabia.
Two of the personnel are said to be "very seriously injured" following the attack at the Prince Sultan Air Base, caused by Iranian drones, according to CBS.
The other eight are reported to be "seriously injured" - a different category of injury under the military's classification system.
The strike is said to have also damaged several US refuelling aircrafts, according to American and Saudi officials on the ground.
Some 13 American service members have been killed in action as part of the US war with Iran which started last month, with a further 300 wounded.
Speaking at an address in Miami on Friday evening, Trump refused to call the conflict a war for "legal reasons".
A US Central Command spokesperson confirmed the figures on Friday and said most of the wounded have returned to action.
President Trump has reportedly been pushing for peace talks to get off the ground this week, and has claimed Iran was negotiating with the US by sending oil out of the Strait of Hormuz.
The shipping route, one of the world's busiest, has been a major point of contention in finding a resolution.
The closure has rocketed the price of oil and gas, and prompted UK inflation to flatline at three per cent last month.
Speaking at the Future Investment Initiative, Trump said: "They were negotiating, which they admitted two days later, and in order to make up for their misstatement, they said we're going to send you eight ships of oil.
“I saw in one of the networks, very strange, there were eight ships of oil coming out of Iran, and then they actually said, we're going to add an extra two. And they added an extra two, so we had 10 ships.
He also added that Iran is "on the run" and added: "For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East, but they are not the bully any longer."
He also appeared to call it the "Strait of Trump" which was greeted by laughter in the crowd.
Trump said: "We're negotiating now, and be great if we could do something, but they have to open it up.
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