President Donald Trump addressed the nation after america 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 reside transcript of Trump’s speech beneath.
“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 harmful enterprise. Our goal was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability, and a cease to the nuclear menace 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 might be far better and quite a bit simpler.
“For years, Iran has been saying loss of life to America, loss of life 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 tons of of hundreds 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 normal, Qasem Soleimani. I made a decision a very long time in the past that I’d not let this occur. It won’t proceed. I need to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We labored as a workforce. Like maybe no workforce has ever labored earlier than. And we have gone a protracted technique to erasing this horrible menace to Israel.
“I need to thank the Israeli navy for the great job they’ve carried out. 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 now not want their companies on this capability. I hope that is so. I additionally need to congratulate the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Gen. Dan “Raizin'” Cain — spectacular normal — and all the sensible navy minds concerned on this assault.
“With all of that being mentioned, this can not proceed. There might be both peace or there might be tragedy for Iran, far better than we’ve witnessed over the past eight days. Keep in mind, there are lots of targets left. Tonight’s was probably the most tough of all of them by far, and maybe probably 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 could be taken out in a matter of minutes.
“There isn’t any navy on the planet that would have carried out what we did tonight. Not even shut. There has by no means been a navy that would do what happened 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 need to simply thank all people, and particularly, God.
“I need to simply say, we love you, God, and we love our nice navy. Defend them. God bless the Center East. God bless Israel, and god bless America. Thanks very a lot. Thanks.”
