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The US president says the conflict is expected to last another “four to five weeks, but we have the ability to last much longer than that”.
Since Saturday’s first attack on Iran, Trump said he warned Iran “not to try to rebuild” its nuclear program.
“I’ve said it from the beginning: They will never have nuclear weapons,” Trump said Monday afternoon at the Medal of Honor ceremony in his first live public address since the attacks.
He also outlined current US military objectives.
“First, we’re destroying Iran’s missile capabilities, and you see that happening every hour, and their capacity to produce brand new ones, and pretty good ones at that,” he said.
“Secondly, we’re destroying their navy. We’ve already disabled 10 ships. They’re at the bottom of the sea. Thirdly, we’re making sure that the world’s number one sponsor of terror can never get a nuclear weapon, will never have a nuclear weapon.”
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He also stated that “our country itself would be in danger, and it was very soon in danger.”
“We thought we had a deal, but then they backed out and they came back, and we thought we had a deal and they backed out. I said, you can’t deal with these people. You have to do it the right way.”
It appeared to target the home of Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in central Tehran. On the same day, he was with the American strikes in the center of Tehran.
“This is not just justice for the people of Iran, but for all great Americans, and those people from many countries around the world, who have been killed or maimed by Khamenei and his gang of bloodthirsty BUILDINGS,” Trump announced at the Truth Social on Saturday.
Trump first said the goal was to make sure Tehran did not get a nuclear weapon, and the goal was to “eliminate the immediate threats of the Iranian regime.” He called on the Iranians to take cover because “bombs are going to fall everywhere.”
It was currently reported by Global Affairs Canada 85 thousand Canadians are in the Middle East; with 2,921 Canadians in Iran, 6,006 Canadians in Israel and 438 registered in the Palestinian territories.
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