President Donald Trump addressed the nation after the USA struck three nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday.
From the White Home, Trump was joined by Vice President JD Vance, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Learn the dwell transcript of Trump’s speech under.
“A short while in the past, the U.S. navy carried out huge precision strikes on the three key nuclear amenities within the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. All people heard these names for years as they constructed this horribly damaging enterprise. Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability, and a cease to the nuclear risk posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror.
“Tonight, I can report back to the world that the strikes have been a spectacular navy success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment amenities have been fully and completely obliterated.
President Donald Trump addresses the nation, alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth from the White Home in Washington, June 21, 2025.
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“Iran, the bully of the Center East, should now make peace. If they don’t, future assaults will probably be far larger and loads simpler.
“For years, Iran has been saying demise to America, demise to Israel. They’ve been killing our individuals, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We misplaced over a thousand individuals and a whole lot of 1000’s all through the Center East and all over the world have died as a direct results of their hate.
“Specifically, so many have been killed by their basic, Qasem Soleimani. I made a decision a very long time in the past that I might not let this occur. It is not going to proceed. I need to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We labored as a crew. Like maybe no crew has ever labored earlier than. And we have gone an extended technique to erasing this horrible risk to Israel.
“I need to thank the Israeli navy for the fantastic job they’ve executed. And most significantly, I need to congratulate the nice American patriots who flew these magnificent machines tonight and all the United States navy on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in lots of, many a long time.
President Donald Trump addresses the nation, alongside Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth from the White Home in Washington, June 21, 2025.
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“Hopefully, we are going to not want their providers on this capability. I hope that is so. I additionally need to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, Gen. Dan “Raizin'” Cain — spectacular basic — and all the good navy minds concerned on this assault.
“With all of that being mentioned, this can not proceed. There will probably be both peace or there will probably be tragedy for Iran, far larger than we have now witnessed over the past eight days. Bear in mind, there are a lot of targets left. Tonight’s was essentially the most tough of all of them by far, and maybe essentially the most deadly. But when peace doesn’t come shortly, we are going to go after these different targets with precision, velocity and ability. Most of them might be taken out in a matter of minutes.
“There isn’t any navy on the earth that would have executed what we did tonight. Not even shut. There has by no means been a navy that would do what occurred just a bit whereas in the past.
“Tomorrow, Gen. Caine, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, may have a press convention at 8 a.m. on the Pentagon. And I need to simply thank all people, and particularly, God.
“I need to simply say, we love you, God, and we love our nice navy. Shield them. God bless the Center East. God bless Israel, and god bless America. Thanks very a lot. Thanks.”
