President Trump: Today the United States Military continues to carry out large scale combat operations in Iran, to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer, a short while ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location, because they were unable to use the ones we so powerfully blew up, but they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this posed a very clear, colossal threat to American forces stationed overseas. The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe, and our bases both local and overseas, and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America. The purpose of this fast-growing missile program was to shield their nuclear weapon development, and to make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to stop them from making these highly forbidden, by us, nuclear weapons.

President Trump: Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis, and their capacity to produce brand new ones. Second, we're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already, ten ships. They're at the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon. Never going to have a nuclear weapon. I said that from the beginning. They're never going to have a nuclear weapon. They were on the road to getting one, legitimately, through a deal that was signed, foolishly, by our country. Finally, we are ensuring that the Iranian regime cannot continue to arm, fund, and direct terrorist armies outside of their borders.