Full speech: Donald Trump’s address to nation after attack on Iran

US president warns Iran that it indispensable present ‘make peace’ oregon look aboriginal US attacks.

After announcing the “very successful” US strikes connected Iranian atomic facilities astatine Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, United States President Donald Trump addressed the nation.

Here is the afloat transcript of his code connected Saturday evening:

A abbreviated clip ago, the US subject carried retired monolithic precision strikes connected the 3 cardinal atomic facilities successful the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Everybody heard those names for years arsenic they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our nonsubjective was the demolition of Iran’s atomic enrichment capableness and a halt to the atomic menace posed by the world’s fig 1 authorities sponsor of terror.

Tonight, I tin study to the satellite that the strikes were a spectacular subject success. Iran’s cardinal atomic enrichment facilities person been wholly and wholly obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, indispensable present marque peace.

If they bash not, aboriginal attacks volition beryllium acold greater and a batch easier.

For 40 years, Iran has been saying, “Death to America, decease to Israel”.

They person been sidesplitting our people, blowing disconnected their arms, blowing disconnected their legs with roadside bombs – that was their speciality.

We mislaid implicit a 1000 people, and hundreds of thousands passim the Middle East and astir the satellite person died arsenic a nonstop effect of their hate, successful particular, truthful galore were killed by their general, Qassem Soleimani.

I decided a agelong clip agone that I would not fto this happen.

It volition not continue.

I privation to convey and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.

We worked arsenic a squad similar possibly nary squad has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a agelong mode to erasing this horrible menace to Israel.

I privation to convey the Israeli subject for the fantastic occupation they’ve done and, astir importantly, I privation to congratulate the large American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight, and each of the United States subject connected an cognition the likes of which the satellite has not seen successful many, galore decades.

Hopefully, we volition nary longer request their services successful this capacity. I anticipation that’s so. I besides privation to congratulate the president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan “Razin” Caine – spectacular wide – and each of the superb subject minds progressive successful this attack.

With each of that being said, this cannot continue.

There volition beryllium either bid oregon determination volition beryllium calamity for Iran acold greater than we person witnessed implicit the past 8 days.

Remember, determination are galore targets left. Tonight’s was the astir hard of them each by far, and possibly the astir lethal, but if bid does not travel quickly, we volition spell aft those different targets with precision, velocity and skill. Most of them tin beryllium taken retired successful a substance of minutes.

There’s nary subject successful the satellite that could person done what we did tonight, not adjacent close. There has ne'er been a subject that could bash what took spot conscionable a small portion ago.

Tomorrow, General Caine, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, volition person a property league astatine 8am (12:00 GMT) astatine the Pentagon, and I privation to conscionable convey everybody, and successful particular, God.

I privation to conscionable say, “We emotion you, God, and we emotion our large military. Protect them.” God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel, and God bless America.

Thank you precise much. Thank you.