President Trump's full address to the nation on Iran War [5:04-10:06]

in office to stop the quest for nuclear weapons by Iran first and perhaps most importantly, I killed General Kassam Salamani in my first term. He was an evil genius, brilliant person, a horrible human being, however, the father of the roadside bomb and he lived just horrible, what he did. Iran would have been perhaps in far better, stronger position. He lived, we would have had probably a different conversation tonight but you know what, we'd still be winning and winning big. And then very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's a red nuclear deal, a disaster. Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green, green cash. Took it out of banks from Virginia DC and Maryland, all the cash they had, flew it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty but it didn't work. They left at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran and they would have had them years ago and they would have used them, would have been a different world. There would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now in my opinion, opinion of a lot of great experts. Had I not terminated that terrible deal that I was so honored to do it, I was so proud to do it, it was so bad right from the beginning. Essentially, I did what no other president was willing to do. They made mistakes and I am correcting them. My first preference was always the path of diplomacy yet the regime continued their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt at an agreement. For this reason in June, I ordered a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities and operation midnight hammer. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. Those beautiful B2 bombers performed magnificently. We totally obliterated those nuclear sites. The regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a totally different location. Making clear they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons. They were also rapidly building a vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles and would soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland Europe and virtually any other place on earth. Iran's strategy was so obvious. They wanted to produce as many missiles as possible and they did with the longest range possible and they had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just learned that. We took them out. We took them all out so that no one would really dare stop them and they're raised for a nuclear bomb and nuclear weapon and nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before. They were right at the doorstep. For years, everyone has said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons but in the end those are just words if you're not willing to take action when the time comes. As I stated in my announcement of Operation Epic Fury, our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's Navy which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their Air Force and their missile program at levels never seen before and annihilating their defense industrial base. We've done all of it. Their Navy is gone. Their Air Force is gone. Their missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's never been anything like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it and tonight I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion. As we celebrate this progress, we think especially of the 13 American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice this past month I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base and it's been something I wanted to be with those heroes as the return to American soil and I was with them and their families, their parents, their wives, their husbands. We salute them and now we must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives at every single one of the people.