A short time ago the United States military began major combat operations in Iran. 

Our object is to defend the American people by eliminating emanate threats from the Iranian regime – a vicious, group of very hard terrible people.

Its menacing activities directly harm the United States, out troops, our bases overseas and out allies all over the world. 

For 47 years the Iranian regime has chanted death to America and has waged an unending campaign of bloodshed and mass murder.

Targeting the United States, our troops and the innocent people in many many countries. 

Among the regime’s first acts was to back a violent takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, holding of dozens of American hostages for 444 days.

In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the marine barracks bombing in Beirut which killed 241 US military personnel. 

In 2000, they knew and were probably involved on the attack on the USS Cole. 

Many died, Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq.

The regime’s proxies have continued to send attacks against American forces stationed in the Middle East in recent years, as well as US vessels in international shipping lanes.

Its been mass terror and we are not going to put up with it any longer. From Lebanon to Yemen, and from Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias which have soaked the earth with blood and guts.

And it was Iran’s proxy Hamas that launched the monstrous October 7 attacks on Israel, slaughtering more than 1000 innocent people, including 46 Americans, while taking 12 of our citizens hostage it was brutal. 

Something like the world has never seen before.

Iran is the world’s number one stage sponsor of terror, and just recently killed tens of thousands of its own people as they protested.

It has always been the police of the United States, in particular my administration that this terrorist regime can never have a nuclear weapon. I will say it again. They can never have a nuclear weapon.

That is why in operation Midnight Hammer last year we obliterated the regime’s program at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan-.

After that attack, we warned them never to resume their malicious pursuit of nuclear weapons, and we sought repeatedly to make a deal. 

We tried they wanted to do it, they didn’t want to do it. Again, they wanted to do it they didn’t want to do it. 

They didn’t know what was happening; they just wanted to practice evil.

Iran refused just as it has for decades and decades. They rejected every possibility to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore.

Instead, they attempted to rebuild their nuclear program and continue developing their long-range missiles which can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe and our troops’ stations overseas and could soon reach the American homeland. 

Just imagine how emboldened this regime would be if they ever had, and were actually armed with nuclear weapons as a means to deliver their message.

For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our national security interests.

We are going to destroy their missiles and raise their missiles industry to the ground, it will be totally again, obliterated. 

We are going to annihilate their navy, we are going to ensure the region’s terrorist proxies can no longer destabilise the region or the world.

And attack our forces and no longer use their IEDs or their roadside bombs to so gravely wound and kill thousands and thousands of people, including many Americans. 

And we will ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon. It is a very simple message: they will never have a nuclear weapon.

This regime will soon learn that no one should challenge the strength and might of the US armed forces. 

I built and rebuilt our military in my first administration, and there is no military even close to its power, strength or sophistication.

My administration has taken every possible step to minimise risk to US personnel in the region; even so, and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill.

The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties, that often happens in war, but we are doing this not for now, but we are doing it for the future, and it is a noble mission.

We pray for every service member as they selflessly risk their lives to ensure that Americans and their children will never be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. 

We ask God to protect all of our heroes in harms way. And we trust that with his help, the men and women of the armed forces will prevail.

We are the greatest in the world, and they will prevail. 

To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity, or in the alternative face certain death. 

So lay down your arms, you will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death.

Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight the hour of your freedom is at hand, stay sheltered, don’t leave your home, it’s very dangerous outside, bombs will be dropping everywhere. 

When we finish taking over your government, it will be yours to take.

This will probably be your only chance for generations. For many years, you have asked for America’s help, but you never got it. 

No president was willing to do what I was willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is willing to give you what you want.

So let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. 

Now is the time to seize control of your destiny and unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is in your reach. This is the moment for action. 

Do not let it pass. May god bless the brave men and women of America’s armed forces. May god bless the United States of America. 

May god bless you all. Thank you.