(22 Jun 2025)
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Washington DC – 21 June 2025
1. Mid, U.S. President Donald Trump followed by Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth walking toward podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, US President:
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"Thank you very much. A short time ago, the U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime, Fordo, Natanz, and Esfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror. Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. 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. For 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 a thousand people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate. In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qasem Soleimani. I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue. I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We worked as a team like perhaps no team has ever worked before. And we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel. I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent 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."
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STORYLINE:
US President Donald Trump says Iran’s key nuclear sites were “completely and fully obliterated” by U.S. strikes.
Trump made the comments at the White House Saturday night hours after announcing the U.S. military had carried out strikes against three key nuclear facilities in Iran.
The president also warned Tehran against carrying out retaliatory attacks against the U.S., saying Iran has choice between “peace or tragedy."
Trump called Iran "the bully of the Middle East" and warned of additional attacks if it didn’t make peace.
"If they do not, future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier," Trump said at the White House after the bombings of Iran’s nuclear facilities were announced earlier.
Trump portrayed the strike as part of a long festering problem, even if the objective was to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
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