President Donald Trump said in an interview that Iran was running out of crucial armaments and that he`d be open to working with some surviving members of the country`s ruling regime, writes POLITICO.

"In a roughly 4-minute phone call with POLITICO, Trump argued that Tehran`s military capacity is being steadily degraded, even as Iranian forces are expected to "keep lobbing missiles for a while".

"They`re running out and they`re running out of areas to shoot them, because they`re being decimated," Trump said. "They`re running out of launchers."

The president`s assertion is new, and had not been mentioned during a Monday Pentagon briefing or publicly by any other administration officials.

The president`s comments come as the U.S. and the Middle East brace for continued missile and drone attacks from Iran, which has retaliated in waves since the conflict erupted early on Saturday.

U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait announced Tuesday they would close and the State Department warned Americans across the Middle East to leave the region as the quickly expanding war entered its fourth day. The president`s suggestion that Iran`s capacity to retaliate would soon subside comes as the timeline for hostilities, the U.S.`s own stockpile, the ultimate goal of the war and the plan for who leads Iran remains up for debate, even, at times, within the administration.

Trump during the interview said, "we have unlimited of the middle- and upper middle- ammunition and things. We save it and we build it. The defense companies are on a rapid tear to build the various things we need. They’re under emergency orders. We`re making it fast. But we have unlimited, as stupid as [former President Joe] Biden was, he didn`t use it".