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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump addressed the federation and the satellite during a code from the East Room astatine the White House connected Saturday night.
The president spoke of "spectacular subject success" pursuing 3 attacks connected Iranian atomic sites successful the hours prior.
The afloat code from the president lasted little than 4 minutes. It is successful afloat below.
"A abbreviated clip ago, the U.S. subject carried retired monolithic precision strikes connected the 3 cardinal atomic facilities successful the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years arsenic they built this horribly destructive enterprise," the president said.
"Our nonsubjective was the demolition of Iran's atomic enrichment capableness and a halt to the atomic menace posed by the world's fig 1 authorities sponsor of terror. Tonight, I tin study to the satellite that the strikes were a spectacular subject success. Iran's cardinal atomic enrichment facilities person been wholly and wholly obliterated.
"Iran, the bully of the Middle East, indispensable present marque peace. If they bash not, aboriginal attacks volition beryllium acold greater and a batch easier. For 40 years, Iran has been saying, 'Death to America, Death to Israel.' They person been sidesplitting our people, blowing disconnected their arms, blowing disconnected their legs, with roadside bombs. That was their specialty.
"We mislaid implicit 1,000 radical and hundreds of thousands passim the Middle East and astir the satellite person died arsenic a nonstop effect of their hate, successful particular, truthful galore were killed by their general, Qassem Soleimani. I decided a agelong clip agone that I would not fto this happen. It volition not continue.
"I privation to convey and congratulate (Israeli) Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked arsenic a squad similar possibly nary squad has ever worked before, and we've gone a agelong mode to erasing this horrible menace to Israel. I privation to convey the Israeli subject for the fantastic occupation they've done, and astir importantly, I privation to congratulate the large American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and each of the United States subject connected an cognition the likes of which the satellite has not seen successful many, galore decades.
"Hopefully, we volition nary longer request their services successful this capacity. I anticipation that's so. I besides privation to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan 'Razin Cane,' spectacular general, and each of the superb subject minds progressive successful this attack. With each of that being said, this cannot continue.
"There volition beryllium either bid oregon determination volition beryllium calamity for Iran acold greater than we person witnessed implicit the past 8 days. Remember, determination are galore targets left. Tonight's was the astir hard of them all, by far, and possibly the astir lethal. But if bid does not travel quickly, we volition spell aft those different targets with precision, velocity and skill; astir of them tin beryllium taken retired successful a substance of minutes.
"There is nary subject successful the satellite that could person done what we did tonight, not adjacent close. There has ne'er been a subject that could bash what took spot conscionable a small portion ago. Tomorrow, General Cain, Secretary of Defense Pete hegseth, volition person a property league astatine 8 a.m. astatine the Pentagon, and I privation to conscionable convey everybody, and successful particular, God, I privation to conscionable say, We emotion you, God, and we emotion our large military. Protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless America. Thank you precise much."
