President Donald Trump addressed the nation after america struck three nuclear websites 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 beneath.
“A short while in the past, the U.S. army carried out large precision strikes on the three key nuclear amenities within the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan. Everyone 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 army 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 better and so much 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 hundreds 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 common, 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 wish to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. We labored as a staff. Like maybe no staff has ever labored earlier than. And we have gone an extended method to erasing this horrible menace to Israel.
“I wish to thank the Israeli army for the fantastic job they’ve executed. And most significantly, I wish to congratulate the nice 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 many years.
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 common — and all the sensible army minds concerned on this assault.
“With all of that being stated, this can not proceed. There will probably be both peace or there will probably be tragedy for Iran, far better than we’ve witnessed over the past eight days. Bear 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 rapidly, we’ll go after these different targets with precision, pace and ability. Most of them could be taken out in a matter of minutes.
“There isn’t a army on this planet that would have executed what we did tonight. Not even shut. There has by no means been a army that would do what came about 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 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.”
