Addressing the nation on Operation Epic Fury, Trump mentioned that the American navy delivered “swiftdecisive and overwhelming victories” on the battlefield, and Iran’s navy and air drive had been “decimated” and have been now “in ruins”.

Listed below are key takeaways from his speech:

1. 01
   

   ‘Iran’s navy gone… leaders useless’

   “Tonight, Iran’s navy is gone, their air drive is in ruins, and most of their leaders are actually useless. Their command and management of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we communicate. Their skill to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed, and their weapons factories and rocket launchers are being blown to items, with only a few left. By no means within the historical past of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks.”

2. 02
   

   ‘I vowed by no means to permit Iran a nuclear weapon’

   “From the very first day I introduced my marketing campaign for president in 2015, I vowed that I might by no means enable Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This regime has been chanting ‘loss of life to America, loss of life to Israel’ for many years. Their proxies have been behind the homicide of 241 People within the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the killing of US service members with roadside bombs, the assault on the USS Cole, and different heinous acts, together with the October 7 assaults in Israel.”

3. 03
   

   ‘Murderous Iran regime killed 45,000 of its personal folks’

   “The murderous regime additionally just lately killed 45,000 of its personal individuals who have been protesting in Iran… For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons can be an insupportable risk. Probably the most violent and thuggish regime on Earth can be free to hold out its campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest, and mass homicide from behind a nuclear defend. I’ll by no means let that occur…”

4. 04
   

   ‘Obama gave Iran $1.7 billion money to earn their respect’

   “…Very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama’s Iran nuclear deal-a catastrophe. Obama gave them $1.7 billion in money… in an try to purchase their respect and loyalty, nevertheless it did not work. They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of huge nuclear weapons for Iran. They might have had them years in the past, and they might have used them. It could have been a distinct world. There would have been no Center East and no Israel proper now, for my part, and the opinion of a whole lot of nice consultants.”

5. 05
   

   ‘I killed an evil genius’

   “The scenario has been occurring for 47 years and will have been dealt with lengthy earlier than I arrived in workplace. I did many issues throughout my two phrases in workplace to cease the hunt for nuclear weapons by Iran first. And maybe, most significantly, I killed Normal Qassem Soleimani in my first time period. He was an evil genius, a superb individual, a horrible human being; nevertheless. The daddy of the roadside bomb.”

6. 06
   

   ‘We’re completely impartial of Center East’

   “Now we’re working together with Venezuela and are, in a real sense, three way partnership companions. We’re getting alongside extremely nicely within the manufacturing and sale of huge quantities of oil and gas-the second largest reserves on Earth after the USA of America. We’re now completely impartial of the Center East, and but we’re there to assist. We do not have to be there. We do not want their oil. We do not want something they’ve, however we’re there to assist, or out.”

7. 07
   

   ‘My first choice was diplomacy’

   “My first choice was all the time the trail of diplomacy, but the regime continued its relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected each try at an settlement. Because of this, in June, I ordered a strike on Iran’s key nuclear services in Operation Midnight Hammer… These stunning B-2 bombers carried out magnificently. We completely obliterated these nuclear websites. The regime then sought to rebuild its nuclear program at a very completely different location, making clear that they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They have been additionally quickly constructing an enormous stockpile of standard ballistic missiles and would quickly have had missiles that might attain the American homeland, Europe, and just about another place on Earth.”

8. 08
   

   ‘Iran had weapons that no person believed that they had’

   “Iran’s technique was so apparent. They needed to supply as many missiles as attainable, and so they did with the longest vary attainable. They usually had some weapons that no person believed that they had. We simply discovered that out. We took them out. We took all of them out in order that nobody would actually dare cease them. They usually raced for a nuclear bomb, a nuclear weapon, a nuclear weapon like no person’s ever seen earlier than. They have been proper on the doorstep. For years, everybody has mentioned that Iran can’t have nuclear weapons, however ultimately, these are simply phrases when you’re not prepared to take motion when the time comes.”