Secretary Hegseth: For forty-seven years, these barbaric savages in the Iranian regime have murdered our Brothers In Arms, my guys, your guys, our guys, through their terrorist proxies and cowardly attacks. Now they race toward a nuclear bomb to hold the world hostage. The Iranians have targeted and killed thousands of my American brothers. That race to a nuclear bomb; President Trump will never allow it. Not now, not ever, not on our watch.

Secretary Hegseth: The mullahs are desperate and scrambling. Like the terrorist cowards they are, they fire missiles from schools and hospitals, deliberately targeting innocents, because they know their military is being systematically degraded and annihilated.

Secretary Hegseth: As President Trump declared yesterday, we're crushing the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. We will not relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated, but we do so on our timeline, and at our choosing.

Chairman Caine: We're in the tenth, moving in the eleventh day of Operation Epic Fury. The Joint Force remains focused on three military objectives. Continue to destroy Iranian ballistic and drone capability in order to prevent attacks on U.S. and others through the region, and this means attacking launch sites, command and control nodes, before they can threaten our personnel, our facilities, and our partners, Second, we continue to strike the Iranian navy and their capabilities, in order to do things like sustain movement through the Straits of Hormuz. And third, we continue to start working on, and going deeper into, Iran's military and industrial base in order to prevent the regime from being able to attack Americans, our interests, and our partners for years to come, and project power outside their borders. This means servicing and production facilities, research and development sites, and infrastructure.

Chairman Caine: We're making substantial progress towards destroying the navy. In the first ten days of the conflict, we're more than fifty Iranian naval ships into the campaign, using a combination of artillery, fighters, bombers, and sea-launched missiles.

Chairman Caine: Most of their higher-end surface-to-air missile systems are not factors at this point in time. We're able to move around fighters that are moving deeper, with relative impunity.

Secretary Hegseth: Ultimately, the aftermath is going to be in America's interest. Our interests. We are not; we won't live under a nuclear blackmail scenario of conventional missiles that can target our people, which is why the objectives have been scoped from the beginning. Missiles, missile production, defensive industrial base, navy; all in service of ensuring they don't have nuclear power projection capabilities. That's what matters to President Trump, that's what matters to the American people, and ultimately, that's why we're so laser-focused on ensuring those objectives, and those objectives alone, are met.