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\n\tPresident Donald Trump addressed the nation Saturday evening after the U.S. military executed airstrikes against three sites in Iran with nuclear enrichment facilities amid rising geopolitical conflict over Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cTonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran\u2019s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,\u201d Trump said in a speech from a podium at the White House. \u201cIt\u2019s Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tStanding behind a stern-faced Trump as he spoke were Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cOur objective was the destruction of Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world\u2019s number one state sponsor of terror,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran, far greater than what we have witnessed over the last eight days,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n
\n\tTrump\u2019s address came hours after he disclosed via a post on his Truth Social platform that the U.S. military had executed airstrikes on three sites in Iran with nuclear enrichment facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Trump asserted that the effort had been a \u201cvery successful attack\u201d and that \u201call planes are now outside Iran air space.\u201d <\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWe have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter,\u201d the President wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n
\n\tTrump\u2019s move sparked immediate controversy for the lack of congressional approval for such a material decision regarding U.S. foreign policy. The boldness of the targeted airstrike has the potential to further destabilize the region that has been up-ended by the war in Gaza that is approaching its second anniversary in October. <\/p>\n
\n\tThe U.S. airstrikes come a week after Israel also conducted aggressive bombing campaign designed to take out Iran\u2019s ability to enrich uranium to the degree necessary to manufacture nuclear weapons. Those strikes left more than 400 casualties and key Iranian leaders dead. The incursion immediately ratcheted tension in the already volatile region. <\/p>\n
\n\tTrump made it clear that the U.S. coordinated with Israel in executing Saturday\u2019s bombing raids. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on live TV minutes before Trump\u2019s White House address, thanking him profusely for his support and his \u201ccourage\u201d in taking the military step in Iran.<\/p>\n
\n\tTrump cast the action as necessary to quash a longstanding threat against the U.S. and Israel.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cFor 40 years, Iran has been saying, Death to America, Death to Israel. They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs, with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over 1,000 people and hundreds of 1000s throughout the Middle East, around the world have died as a direct result of the hate in particular so many were killed by their general Qasem Soleimani,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue. I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu. We worked as a team like our absolute team has ever worked before, and we\u2019ve gone a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tLike Netanyahu, Trump bragged about the U.S.\u2019s military prowess in targeting key sites with B-2 bombs capable of penetrating fortified structures.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight, not even close. It has never been a military that could do what took place just a little while ago tomorrow,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnitude machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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