Trump says we're 'blowing up the whole country' if Iran doesn't make deal in 48 hours

President Donald Trump told The Telegraph newspaper he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO, criticizing the reluctance of allied nations to join the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war in Iran.

"I would say [it's] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin knows that too, by the way," he said in the interview, which was published on Wednesday.

Trump told The Telegraph he thought allies joining the war should have been "automatic," even though he did not consult with them before attacking Iran.

"We've been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn't our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren't there for us."

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was asked about Trump's comments at a news conference on Wednesday morning and defended his decision to stay out of the war.

"I have to act in our national interests," Starmer told reporters. "This is not our war," he continued, noting "a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war. I'm not going to change my position on the war."

-ABC News' Justin Gomez and Joe Simonetti

At least 3,519 people have so far been confirmed killed in Iran by U.S.-Israeli strikes since the war began on Feb. 28, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported Tuesday.

The reported toll includes 1,598 civilians and 1,212 military personnel, while the status of 709 victims remains undetermined. According to HRANA, 244 of the victims were children.

ABC News cannot independently verify these numbers. However, HRANA has been reliable in counting deaths during previous rounds of unrest in Iran.

-ABC News' Joe Simonetti and Somayeh Malekian

The Israel Defense Forces said in a Wednesday morning statement that it completed another wave of strikes on Iranian government infrastructure in Tehran.

Iran's Red Crescent Society said in a statement that civilian infrastructure was hit in airstrikes on Tuesday night, including the Mobarakeh Steel Company in Isfahan -- Iran's largest steel production facility and one of the largest in the region -- the Shahid Haqqani Port in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, a steel production complex in Bandar Abbas, a meteorological facility in Bushehr and a residential complex in Malard to the west of Tehran.

Reports also indicated airstrikes in areas surrounding the former U.S. Embassy building in Tehran on Wednesday.

-ABC News' Joe Simonetti, Somayeh Malekian and Jordana Miller

The Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen on Wednesday claimed a ballistic missile attack on southern Israel.

The Houthis said in a statement that the "barrage of ballistic missiles" targeted "sensitive Israeli enemy targets" in the south of the country. The attack was "conducted jointly with" Iran and Hezbollah, the statement said.

-ABC News' Joe Simonetti, Somayeh Malekian and Jordana Miller