Iran-US war latest: Tehran says conflict will go on ‘until enemy’s surrender’ after Trump says US will withdraw soon
Key points recap: Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Iran
- Trump announced that the U.S. military’s “core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” though offered no further information on those objectives.
- The president appeared to slur his words on several occasions during the speech.
- He claimed the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign, dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” had “delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield, victories like few people have ever seen before.”
- Trump repeated many of his same justifications for the month-old bombing campaign against Iran, including his claim there was an imminent threat of Tehran producing a nuclear weapon.
- He paid tribute to the 13 U.S. service members killed in the conflict and claimed their families had all told him to “finish the job.”
- Trump also once again blamed the rise in gas prices in the U.S. on the Iranian conflict and boasted the economy he had cultivated was strong enough to withstand it.
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