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 stay transcript of Trump’s speech under.
“A short while in the past, the U.S. army 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 harmful 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 army success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment amenities have been utterly 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 likely be far higher and so much simpler.
“For years, Iran has been saying loss of life to America, loss of life to Israel. They’ve been killing our folks, blowing off their arms, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We misplaced over a thousand folks and tons of of 1000’s all through the Center East and around the globe have died as a direct results of their hate.
“Particularly, so many have been killed by their basic, Qasem Soleimani. I made a decision a very long time in the past that I’d not let this occur. It is not going to proceed. I wish 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 a protracted technique to erasing this horrible risk to Israel.
“I wish to thank the Israeli army for the great job they’ve accomplished. And most significantly, I wish to congratulate the good American patriots who flew these magnificent machines tonight and all the United States army 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’ll now not want their companies on this capability. I hope that is so. I additionally wish to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Gen. Dan “Raizin'” Cain — spectacular basic — and all the good army minds concerned on this assault.
“With all of that being mentioned, this can’t proceed. There will likely be both peace or there will likely be tragedy for Iran, far higher than we’ve got witnessed during the last eight days. Bear in mind, there are various 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 rapidly, we’ll go after these different targets with precision, velocity and talent. Most of them might be taken out in a matter of minutes.
“There is no such thing as a army on the planet that would have accomplished what we did tonight. Not even shut. There has by no means been a army that would do what passed off just a bit whereas in the past.
“Tomorrow, Gen. Caine, Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, could have a press convention at 8 a.m. on the Pentagon. And I wish to simply thank all people, and particularly, God.
“I wish to simply say, we love you, God, and we love our nice army. Defend them. God bless the Center East. God bless Israel, and god bless America. Thanks very a lot. Thanks.”
