By Matt SpetalnickWASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - With President Donald Trump’s war against Iran now in its sixth month, this week's flurry of threats and diplomacy has underscored the ever-tighter bind he finds himself in as he tries to extricate the U.S. from an unpopular conflict he originally claimed would last just weeks.

The US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender.

US president faces few good options to exit a war he once said would end swiftly with the Islamic republic’s surrender