00:00To the precision campaign that obliterated Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer,
00:04to the decisive military victory we just achieved in Operation Epic Fury.
00:09Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield.
00:16Iran has been a threat to the United States and the free world for 47 years.
00:22Chance of death to America, targeting our people, killing Americans,
00:26lying and blackmailing their way toward a nuclear weapon, so they thought.
00:32No longer. Not on our watch.
00:36Other presidents marked time and kicked the can down the road.
00:40President Trump made history.
00:43From the strike that took out Qasem Soleimani,
00:47to tearing up the disastrous Obama-Iran deal,
00:50to the precision campaign that obliterated Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer,
00:55to the decisive military victory we just achieved in Operation Epic Fury.
01:01No other president has shown the courage and resolve of this commander-in-chief.
01:07President Trump forged this moment.
01:10Iran begged for this ceasefire, and we all know it.
01:14As a president truth this morning, a big day for world peace.
01:20Iran wants it to happen.
01:21They've had enough.
01:23Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield.
01:31A capital V military victory.
01:36By any measure, Epic Fury decimated Iran's military
01:40and rendered it combat ineffective for years to come.
01:44You see, in less than 40 days, one of our combatant commands, Central Command, CENTCOM,
01:52using less than 10% of America's total combat power,
01:56dismantled one of the world's largest militaries.
01:59The world's leading state sponsor of terrorism proved utterly incapable
02:04of defending itself, its people, or its territory.
02:09We untied just a fraction of our strength, and Iran suffered a devastating military defeat.
02:17Together with our Israeli partners, America's military achieved every single objective,
02:23on plan, on schedule, exactly as laid out from day one.
02:28Iran's Navy is at the bottom of the sea.
02:31Whether it's the Soleimani class, their frigate class, their prized drone aircraft carriers, submarines, mine layers, sunk.
02:41Iran's air force has been wiped out.
02:44Iran no longer has an air defense, any sort of a comprehensive air defense system.
02:49We own their skies.
02:52Their missile program is functionally destroyed.
02:55Launchers, production facilities, and existing stockpiles depleted and decimated.
03:01And almost completely ineffective, Iran shot hundreds and hundreds of missiles and attack,
03:07one-way attack drones, at our aircraft carrier.
03:09They were obsessed with it, and they never got even close.
03:14Every single one of those shots easily shot down miles and miles away from the Abe Lincoln.
03:21They were blowing ammo into fantasy land.
03:25Contrast that with most significantly, in last night's wave of more than 800 strikes,
03:32we finished completely destroying Iran's defense industrial base.
03:38A core pillar of our mission objective.
03:41What little they have left, buried in bunkers, is all they will have.
03:47They can still shoot, we know that.
03:49Their command and control is so decimated, they can't really talk and coordinate.
03:53So they still may shoot here and there, but that would be very, very unwise.
03:58But they can no longer build missiles, build rockets, build launchers, or build UAVs.
04:05Their factories have been razed to the ground, set back in historic fashion.
04:12You see, had Iran refused our terms, the next targets would have been their power plants,
04:18their bridges, and oil and energy infrastructure.
04:22Targets they could not defend and could not realistically rebuild.
04:26It would have taken them decades, and we were locked and loaded.
04:31They couldn't defend against it.
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