President Donald Trump called Saturday’s strikes on a trio of Iranian nuclear sites a ‘spectacular military success’ and gave a stark warning to Tehran that more attacks would be coming if the regime didn’t make peace.
Trump spoke just after 10 p.m. Saturday in the White House’s Cross Hall, flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
He spoke for less than four minutes.
‘Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success,’ Trump said. ‘Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.’
‘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,’ Trump warned.
The president opened his remarks by calling Iran the ‘world’s No. 1 state-sponsor of terror.’
‘For 40 years, Iran has been saying “death to America, death to Israel,”‘ Trump said. ‘They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty.’
President Donald Trump (center left) gave brief remarks about the U.S.’s strikes in Iran alongside (from left) Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
President Donald Trump announced a little before 8 p.m. Saturday that the United States had dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran – after on Thursday giving himself two weeks to make a decision on whether the U.S. would join Israel’s war with the Islamic regime
He blamed the deaths of thousands on Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s Quds Force, who the U.S. assassinated under the direction of Trump at the Baghdad airport in January 2020.
‘It will not continue,’ Trump warned.
Trump thanked and congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who the president spoke to by phone after the U.S.’s bombing campaign, the Daily Mail confirmed.
‘We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before,’ Trump said. ‘And we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.’
The president’s address came after he announced the attacks on Iran using his Truth Social network, a little before 8 p.m. Saturday.
‘We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,’ the president said.
‘All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,’ he continued. ‘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,’ Trump said. ‘NOW IS HE TIME FOR PEACE!’
‘Thank you for your attention to this matter,’ he added.
The president revealed to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that the U.S. military used six massive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site.
The other two nuclear sites were targeted with 30 Tomahawk missiles launched from submarines 400 miles away.
Prior to the Truth Social post, the president hasn’t showed his hand, walking into the White House Saturday evening without speaking to reporters.
The White House even called a ‘lid’ – which is when the press pool, which tracks the president’s movements, is dismissed for the day.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday that the president was giving himself two weeks to decide whether or not to attack Iran, with diplomatic options seemingly still on the table.
