00:05A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.
00:20Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.
00:28Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
00:41Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
00:49Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.
00:54Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.
00:59If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.
01:03For 40 years, Iran has been saying, death to America, death to Israel.
01:09They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.
01:15That was their specialty.
01:16We lost over a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate.
01:25In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani.
01:31I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.
01:36It will not continue.
01:38I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
01:43We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before.
01:48And we've gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.
01:52I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they've done.
01:57And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight
02:03and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.
02:11Hopefully, we will no longer need their services in this capacity.
02:16I hope that's so.
02:17I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Raisin-Kane, spectacular general,
02:25and all of the brilliant military minds involved in this attack.
02:29With all of that being said, this cannot continue.
02:32There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.
02:41Remember, there are many targets left.
02:43Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
02:51But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed, and skill.
02:59Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes.
03:03There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close.
03:08There has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago.
03:13Tomorrow, General Kane, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, will have a press conference at 8 a.m. at the Pentagon.
03:22And I want to just thank everybody, and in particular, God.
03:27I want to just say we love you, God, and we love our great military.
