&imwidth=800&imheight=600&format=webp&quality=medium "Trump calls Iran 'bully of Middle East,' says nuclear sites 'completely obliterated' in address to nation after US strikes")
US President Donald Trump, in his first address to the nation after the United States' strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, called Tehran the 'bully of the Middle East.' Trump said that Iran's nuclear sites were “completely and totally obliterated”.
A 'spectacular success'
"A short time ago the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan," he detailed, adding that everyone heard those names for years as Iran built what Trump referred to as a "horribly destructive enterprise."
Calling the strikes a 'spectacular military success', Trump said that “Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.”
Labelling Tehran the world's number one state sponsor of terror, Trump said that the US's objective with these strikes was the "destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat" posed by the nation.
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Trump, who is fond of coming up with nicknames, then called Iran "the bully of the Middle East" and said that the nation "must now make peace." He added that if Tehran does not fall into line, “future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier.”
While just a day earlier, on Friday (Jun 21) Trump had given Iran a "maximum" two weeks warning, in his address to the nation the POTUS said that he had “decided a long time ago that I would not let this happen. It will not continue.”
He ended his brief speech with an ominous warning for Iran, saying, "this cannot continue. There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days."
"Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal...But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill. Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes," he said.
