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FILE: US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on 31 January 2025. Picture: Mandel Ngan/AFP

President Donald Trump on Monday said he is not ruling out sending US troops into Iran, while threatening a new, "big wave" of attacks.

The 79-year-old Republican has long campaigned against decades of US military entanglements in the Middle East, but ordered a large-scale war against Iran starting Saturday.

While so far the assault has focused entirely on aerial attacks by missiles and bombs, Trump refused to rule out sending ground troops -- something generally considered to be far riskier in terms of possible casualties.

"I don't have the yips with respect to boots on the ground -- like every president says, 'There will be no boots on the ground.' I don't say it," Trump told the New York Post in one of numerous brief interviews he has given since launching the Iran operation.

"I say 'probably don't need them,' [or] 'if they were necessary,'" he said.

Trump also spoke to CNN on Monday, flagging what he said would be an escalation in the assault on Iran.