Trump Declares US Strike On Iran ‘Spectacular Success’, Warns of 'Greater Tragedy' If...
The US launched strikes on three nuclear facilities in Iran on Sunday: Natanz, Isfahan, and Fordow.
Donald Trump on Sunday called the US strikes on Iran a "spectacular military success" as he addressed the nation after bombing three nuclear Iranian sites.
He informed that the US military carried out "massive precision strike" on three key nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan: "Everybody heard those names as they built this horribly destructive enterprise."
Trump said the objective of the strikes was "destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the number one state sponsor of terror." Tehran has argued that its nuclear programme is intended for peaceful purposes.
"The strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated," he said as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth stood by his side.
Terming Iran the "bully of the Middle East", Trump said Tehran "must now make peace" warning that 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...legs with roadside bombs. That was their speciality," Trump said.
The US President further blamed that thousands of people died in the region and around the world as a direct result of Iran's "hate" and specifically mentioned General Qassam Soleimani who was killed in a US drone attack in January 2020.
Trump thanked and congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his address. "We worked as a team, perhaps no team has ever worked before."
He concluded his address with a warning: "there will be either peace or tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed in the last eight days."
The Republican president pointed out "there are many targets left" in Iran with the one targeted by the US being the "most lethal". He threatened that if "peace doesn't come quickly, we will go after those other targets."
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