Secretary Hegseth: President Trump forged this moment, Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it. As the president Truthed this morning, 'A big day for World Peace'; Iran wants it to happen; they've had enough. Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. A Capital V Military Victory. By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran's military, and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come.

Secretary Hegseth: Operation Epic Fury; less than six weeks, clear mission, decisive action, overwhelming firepower, America First. A historic battlefield victory.

Secretary Hegseth: The War Department, for now, for now, has done it's part. We stand ready in the background to ensure Iran upholds every reasonable term. And as everybody knows, nobody makes a better deal than President Trump.

Chairman Caine: On February 28th, the president of the United States ordered the Joint Force to execute Operation Epic Fury, with the direction to accomplish three distinct military objectives. Destroy Iran's ballistic missile and drone capabilities, destroy the Iranian navy, and destroy their defense industrial base to ensure that Iran cannot reconstitute the ability to project power outside their borders. Over the course of thirty-eight days of combat operations, the Joint Force achieved the military objectives as defined by the president. We welcome the ongoing ceasefire, and as the secretary said, we hope that Iran chooses a lasting peace. But as Secretary Hegseth said, let us be clear. A ceasefire is a pause, and the Joint Force remains ready if ordered or called upon, to resume combat operations with the same speed and precision as we've demonstrated over the last thirty-eight days, and we hope that that is not the case.

Chairman Caine: As the secretary said, the United States has devastated the regimes ability to harm Americans and our interests for years to come. Since the beginning of major combat operations, the United States Joint Forces struck more than thirteen thousand targets, including in that thirteen thousand, more than four thousand dynamic targets that popped up on the battlefield and were immediately addressed, thanks to the exceptional command and control system and intelligence acumen, and agility of our Joint Force. CENTCOM Forces destroyed approximately eighty percent of Iran's air defense systems, striking more than fifteen hundred air defense targets, more than four hundred and fifty ballistic missile storage facilities, eight hundred one-way attack drone storage facilities; all of these systems are gone. We've devastated Iran's command and control and logistical networks, destroying more than two thousand command and control nodes, and degrading their ability to target U.S. and friendly forces.

Chairman Caine: The Joint Force flew more than ten thousand missions, including sixty-two bomber missions, eighteen of which flew round-trip from the United States to deliver bombs on military targets. Each of these missions was more than thirty hours in duration, and we did that eighteen times. No other military in the world can do that, and it's a testament to the logistical force that quietly serves behind them.

Secretary Hegseth: We'll be hanging around. We're not going anywhere. We're gonna make sure Iran complies with the ceasefire, and then ultimately comes to the table and makes a deal. So we'll stay put, stay ready, stay vigilant, as the chairman laid out. Our troops are prepared to defend, prepared to go on offense, prepared to restart at a moments notice, with whatever target package would be needed in order to ensure that Iran complies.

Secretary Hegseth: The more Iran moves, the more Iran moves forces, the more they emplace forces, the more easily targetable they are for us right now. Remember, we're able to look, we're able to see, we're able to sense, we know where they; so if they try to pre-position, they're just creating riper military targets for us to strike should they make the wrong decision at the table.

Secretary Hegseth: On the uranium; we're watching it, we know what they have, and they will give it up, and we'll get it, and we'll take it. If we have to, we can do it in any means necessary.