The NATO alliance has crafted a summit in The Hague this week to shore itself up by satisfying U.S. President Donald Trump with a big new defence spending goal - but it now risks being dominated by the repercussions of his military strikes on Iran.

NATO leaders meeting this week in The Hague will confront the prospect of another open-ended U.S.-led war outside the North Atlantic region the alliance was created to defend.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, speaking to reporters during a press conference Monday ahead of a NATO summit in The Hauge, reaffirmed NATO’s position that Iran “should not have its hands on a nuclear weapon” and that the US strikes over the weekend on the country’s nuclear facilities were not “against international law.