Donald Trump addressed the country after praising the “very successful” US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan.
His full address on Saturday evening is available in its entirety here:
The US military launched numerous precision strikes on Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, three important nuclear installations controlled by the Iranian regime.
As they built this abominably destructive enterprise, everyone knew those names for years. Our goals were to stop Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability and put an end to the state’s top nuclear sponsor, Iran, who is the world’s top nuclear supporter.
Tonight, I can reveal to the world that the military’s strikes were a remarkable success. The main nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran have been completely destroyed. The Middle East’s bullies, Iran, must now reconcile.
Future attacks will be much bigger and much simpler if they don’t.
Iran has been saying “Death to America, death to Israel” for 40 years.
They have been using roadside bombs to kill our people, stripping off their arms, and killing them.
Over a thousand people died as a direct result of their hatred, and hundreds more in the Middle East and other parts of the world, in particular, Qassem Soleimani, their general, was responsible for many of their deaths.
I made a long-held commitment to preventing this from occurring.
It won’t continue.
Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu deserves my gratitude and praise.
We worked together as a whole, which is something that perhaps has never happened before, and we have already accomplished a lot to end this terrible threat to Israel.
I want to congratulate the Israeli military on an operation unlike anything the world has seen in a long time and, most importantly, I want to thank the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight.
Hopefully, this is the last time we need their services. That’s great, I hope so. Additionally, I want to congratulate the spectacular general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan “Razin” Caine, as well as all of the accomplished military personnel who participated in this attack.
This cannot continue, despite all of that being said.
Iran will experience far greater tragedy than we have seen in the past eight days, and either way there will be peace or tragedy.
Remember that there are still many targets. Even though tonight’s was by far the most difficult and perhaps the most deadly of them all, we will pursue those targets with precision, speed, and skill if peace does not intervene. In a matter of seconds, the majority of them can be removed.
No military could have done the things we did tonight, not even close. Never has a military been able to carry out the events that just recently occurred.
I want to thank everyone, and especially God, at a press conference that will be held tomorrow at 8 a.m. (12 00 GMT) at the Pentagon hosted by General Caine and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
We love our great military, and we love you, God, in a simple statement. They should be protected. God’s blessings on the Middle East. God blesses America and Israel, respectively.
Source: Aljazeera
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