The US president claims that Iran’s key nuclear websites had been destroyed in airstrikes and warns Tehran to decide on peace or face extra devastating assaults
In a televised handle from the White Home on Saturday night time, US President Donald Trump claimed that American forces had “fully obliterated” three Iranian nuclear websites in a serious in a single day operation. He described the strikes as a “spectacular army success” and threatened additional motion if Tehran doesn’t pursue peace.
Beneath is the complete transcript of President Trump’s handle to the nation:
“Thanks very a lot.
A short while in the past, the US army carried out large, precision strikes on the three key nuclear amenities within the Iranian regime. Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan. All people heard these names for years as they constructed this horribly harmful enterprise.
Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability and a cease to the nuclear risk posed by the world’s primary state sponsor of terror.
Tonight, I can report back to the world that the strikes had been a spectacular army success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment amenities have been fully and completely obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Center East, should now make peace. If they don’t. Future assaults can be far better and so much simpler.
For 40 years, Iran has been saying. Loss of life to America, dying to Israel. They’ve been killing our folks, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs, with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We misplaced over 1,000 folks and tons of of hundreds all through the Center East, and world wide have died as a direct results of their hate specifically. So many had been killed by their common, Qassim Soleimani. I made a decision a very long time in the past that I might not let this occur. It is not going to proceed.
I wish to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We labored as a crew like maybe no crew has ever labored earlier than, and we’ve gone a protracted method to erasing this horrible risk to Israel. I wish to thank the Israeli army for the fantastic job they’ve achieved. And most significantly, I wish to congratulate the good American patriots who flew these magnificent machines tonight, and the entire United States army on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in lots of, many a long time.
Hopefully, we are going to now not want their providers on this capability. I hope that’s so. I additionally wish to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Basic Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, spectacular common, and the entire good army minds concerned on this assault.
With all of that being stated, this can not proceed. There might be both peace, or there might be tragedy for Iran, far better than we’ve witnessed during the last eight days. Keep in mind, there are lots of targets left. Tonight’s was essentially the most troublesome of all of them, by far, and maybe essentially the most deadly. But when peace doesn’t come shortly, we are going to go after these different targets with precision, pace and ability. Most of them may be taken out in a matter of minutes. There’s no army on the earth that would have achieved what we did tonight. Not even shut. There has by no means been a army that would do what occurred just a bit whereas in the past.
Tomorrow, Basic Caine, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth could have a press convention at 8am on the Pentagon. And I wish to simply thank everyone. And, specifically, God. I wish to simply say, we love you, God, and we love our nice army. Defend them. God bless the Center East. God bless Israel and God bless America. Thanks very a lot. Thanks.”
