Read President Trumps speech after US strikes on Iran

Thank you very much.A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.

Our objective was the destruction of Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No.1 state sponsor of terror.Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.

Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace.

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, blowing off their legs with roadside bombs.That was their specialty.We lost over a thousand people and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a direct result of their hate.

In particular, so many were killed by their general, Qassem Soleimani.I decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen.It will not continue.

I want to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.We worked as a team.

Like perhaps no team has ever worked before, and we’ve gone a long way to erasing this horrible threat to Israel.I want to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful job they’ve done.And most importantly, I want to congratulate the great American patriots who flew those magnificent machines tonight and all of the United States military on an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades.

Hopefully, we’ll no longer need their services in this capacity.I hope that’s so.

I so want to congratulate the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Dan “Razin ” Caine, spectacular general and all of the brilliant military minds invo...