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White House transcripts of the President’s remarks, compiled by the Office of the Federal Register and published on govinfo.gov
“Iran” said in 40 of 94 transcripts, 171 times.
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Mar 17, 2026 Meeting 24 times
…it, actually. Very important that we take out the nuclear threat from Iran , and we've done that very strongly, very powerfully. We've wiped out their… …did a great thing by knocking them out. Nobody wants to have Iran —or anybody—but nobody wants to have Iran with a nuclear—because… …along with us. It's been a very strong collaboration. I was against Iran long before I even thought about Israel being against Iran. I was…
Mar 16, 2026 Meeting 5 times
…beginning of the conflict, we've struck more than 7,000 targets across Iran , and these have been mostly commercial and military targets. We've achieved a… …will take a long time to rebuild that. We are aggressively dismantling Iran's defense industrial base, and ability to rebuild its missiles and drone capability… …very good shape. The countries—I said we've already taken care of Iran , but now because of the fact that literally a single terrorist can…
Mar 3, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts a Bilateral Meeting with Germany 9 times
…it's been very strong. We'll obviously be talking a little bit about Iran today, and he's been helping us out, doing—they've been very nice… …to watch. And that was all, almost all—95 percent comes from Iran . And Soleimani loved it. His favorite weapon. He loved the roadside bomb… …have to go and the way they have to live, this is Iran . When you look at the barracks, the famous barracks, when you look…
Feb 19, 2026 Meeting 9 times
…had some very interesting meetings having to do with—as you know, Iran is a hot spot right now, and they're meeting, and they have… …be, over the years, not easy to make a meaningful deal with Iran . We have to make a meaningful deal. Otherwise, bad things happen. But… …meaningful deal. But they have a great relationship with the representatives of Iran . They have a great relationship with the other one that they're really…
Jan 21, 2026 Meeting 1 time
…ever see that. Now, I would say, if we didn't bomb the Iran nuclear plant, they would have had a nuclear weapon within 2 months…
Jan 9, 2026 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Oil & Gas Executives 8 times
…are very familiar with taking oil out of the ground. Yes. So Iran is in big trouble. It looks to me that the people are… …totally backed down, but this is something pretty incredible that's happening in Iran . It's an amazing thing to watch. They've done a bad job. They've… …That's never happened before, although I heard that's also taking place in Iran . They named a street, the protesters. I just hope—you know, just…
Dec 2, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a cabinet meeting 7 times
…than they were prior to us taking out the nuclear capability of Iran . You know, Iran has gone down many, many steps in terms of… …bully of the Middle East anymore. And Iraq was being bullied by Iran , yes. We had a President that thought it was brilliant to blow… …a sudden, instead of having a power that was basically equal to Iran , they had Iran ruling the Middle East for a long period of…
Nov 18, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Prince 6 times
…we've done a great job in wiping out the nuclear capacity of Iran . Nobody else could have done that. No other President would have done… …22 years—they said, "Our predecessors and us practiced the attack on Iran , but no President ever gave us the go-ahead." Three times a… …it was the right thing to do. You can't have a nuclear Iran , and so we put you in a very good position. But I…
Nov 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump holds a meeting on the World Cup 1 time
…great ally. They've got to like us very much. Look at the Iran situation, what we did in terms of obliterating, you know, their—we…
Oct 20, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Bilateral with Prime Minister of Australia 2 times
…look at the Middle East, I would say, prior to us hitting Iran so hard, we could have never made that deal, because you would've… …Hamas has been very violent. But they don't have the backing of Iran anymore. They don't have the backing of, really, anybody anymore. They have…
Oct 17, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump meets with Zelensky 2 times
…a lot of that was the big hit that we put on Iran , with respect to the nuclear. They took—That was a—that was… …the most accurate. You know, we used—we had 30 Tomahawks in Iran . After the B–2s did their damage, we sort of gave it…
Oct 13, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…important role. I appreciate it very much. Thank you. Right. No, not Iran . But I think Iran will come along. They've been battered and bruised… …the sanctions off." We're going to end up with peace. I think Iran is going to be fine. I know so many Iranian people. They're… …all come together. Every country has come together. And by the way, Iran did put out a statement, you know, that they support this deal…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump's Bilateral meeting with President of Finland 2 times
…countries that did this. The whole world came together for this, even Iran . And I really thank them for it. Iran came out and said…
Oct 9, 2025 Meeting Kalshi: Trump Cabinet Meeting 6 times
…just everything came together. I think the attack was very important on Iran , because, let's say that didn't happen. They'd probably, by now, have a… …dark cloud over it, and it wouldn't be the same thing. So Iran is different, but Iran wants to work on peace now, they've informed… …it's a great thing. So, we appreciate that, and we'll work with Iran . As you know, we have major sanctions on Iran and lots of…
Sep 23, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…financial standpoint, we're doing some things that are pretty good. We put Iran out of commission. Very important. That was called the bully of the…
Aug 26, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…named "Razin" Caine, who happens to have done the whole thing in Iran . He's a great general, and he's a wonderful guy too, believe it…
Aug 25, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…Bibi Netanyahu quite a bit. And we had great success, obviously, in Iran . We knocked out their nuclear threat. That would have been a horror…
Aug 18, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…nuclear in—as you saw, the nuclear—the future nuclear capability of Iran . And this one, I think we're going to get solved also. I…
Jul 28, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…Well, I think Israel can do a lot. I will say that Iran , I think, interjected themselves in this last negotiation. Can you imagine? The… …that. We will do that gladly—openly and gladly. They've been saying—Iran has been sending out bad signals, I'll tell you. For a country… …called me. He wanted to know if I could help him with Iran . I said: "No, I don't need your help with Iran. I need…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…of the quality of the military equipment. You saw that recently in Iran , and you see that—unfortunately, you see that often for all the…
Jul 27, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…actually made the situation worse. But we'll see what happens. I think Iran is acting up. I think that we have a lot of people… …to him about a lot of things. I talked to him about Iran . I think Iran has been very nasty with their words, with their… …con job. We have a lot of con jobs going on. But Iran was beaten up very badly, for good reason. We cannot have them…
Jul 16, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…probably, in 50 years, which took place a few weeks ago in Iran . Knocked out their entire potential nuclear capacity, and it was obliterated. You… …happened with Israel. That would have never happened. Hamas had no money. Iran had no money. There was no money to do an attack like…
Jul 14, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…equipment in the world, whether it's missiles—you saw that recently in Iran , the way those planes flew in. They hit every single—14 bombs… …year for 22, 24 years," because they always knew they hadn't stopped Iran from doing what they were doing, which is trying to come up…
Jul 9, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…defense equipment. I guess we proved that about 2 weeks ago in Iran . But we make the best equipment—best military equipment—anywhere in the…
Jul 8, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…it was beyond the war that, you know, obviously we had with Iran and Israel, and a lot of hatred—a lot of years and…
Jul 7, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…hasn't stopped. I'm not happy about it either. Yes. We have scheduled Iran talks. And they want to—— They want to talk. They took a… …you that, in my view, I hope it's over. Yes. I think Iran wants to meet. I think they want to make peace, and I'm… …chance without the sanctions. And one of the things we have with Iran is—you know, we have very—we—they call them "biting"—they…
Jun 25, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…statements just came out from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission and from Iran , as you know, that it was complete, total destruction. And CNN turned… …Atomic Energy Commission, and it was also about—the high commission of Iran just said it was totally demolished. But we're going to have a…
Jun 25, 2025 Meeting 7 times
…won't. I think we'll end up having somewhat of a relationship with Iran . I see it. Look, I've had a relationship over the last 4… …I think it was a—just a tremendous victory for everybody, including Iran . Look, you know, they've got a country, and they've got oil, and… …have something to say? That's right. It's wiped out. They went down—— Iran went down to the site afterwards. They said, "It's so devastated." And…
Jun 16, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…make a deal." And it's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war. And they should talk, and they should…
Jun 5, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…have never happened. The attack on Israel would have never happened because Iran was broke. They had no money. They had no money to give…
May 15, 2025 Meeting 10 times
…they're doing so well. And you probably read today the story about Iran has sort of agreed to the terms. They're not going to make… …nuclear dust." We're not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran . And we've been strong. I want them to succeed. I want them… …So we'll see what happens. But we're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace. And if we do that, it will be…
May 14, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…administration created havoc and bedlam by basically being incompetent, but by empowering Iran and its proxies, sending them billions of dollars—billions and billions of… …aggression that threatens us all. I want to make a deal with Iran . I want to do something, if it's possible, but for that to… …in fully and totally enforcing the sanctions that I just placed on Iran , and we also placed secondary sanctions, which are in certain ways even…
Apr 24, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…and peace. But I think we're doing very well with respect to Iran , and we're having very serious meetings. And there are only two options… …all. And I think we're doing very well on an agreement with Iran , but that one—we're doing a lot of things, I will say…
Apr 17, 2025 Meeting 6 times
…I'm not in a rush to do it, because I think that Iran has a chance to have a great country and to live happily… …there's a second option, I think it would be very bad for Iran . And I think Iran is wanting to talk. I hope they're wanting… …very good for them if they do. And I'd like to see Iran be—thrive in the future, do fantastically well. I know the Iranian…
Apr 14, 2025 Meeting 10 times
…with Russia-Ukraine. You wouldn't have had the Middle East problem, because Iran was broke. They had no money because we had secondary sanctions on… …of other sanctions. And now, every single thing. Got a problem with Iran , but I'll solve that problem. That's almost an easy one. We got… …Behind you. Yes. Well, they have to solve their problem very quickly. Iran wants to deal with us, but they don't know how. They really…
Apr 7, 2025 Meeting 10 times
…we had great discussions today, I think, on the obvious subject of Iran and also the less obvious subject, with respect to Israel, and that's… …the—— Wait a minute. Wait, wait, wait. We're having direct talks with Iran , and they've started. It will go on Saturday. We have a very… …those talks will be successful. And I think it would be in Iran's best interest if they are successful. And we hope that's going to…
Mar 25, 2025 Meeting 4 times
…people. They make their own missiles. They get the missiles also from Iran . It's an offshoot of Iran—another offshoot. You have Hamas. You have… …have the Houthis. You got a lot of stuff going on with Iran . And we sent a letter to Iran: You're going to have to…
Feb 28, 2025 Meeting 1 time
…have been October 7. That would have never happened. As you know, Iran was broke. They had no money to give to Hizballah. They had…
Feb 21, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…have had—you wouldn't have had October 7. They had no money. Iran was broke. We had sanctions up on Iran that nobody has ever…
Feb 4, 2025 Meeting 2 times
…Gaza. And you would not have—— Say it? all? So you say Iran is so weak. I appreciate you saying that. They're not weak. They're… …weapon. It's very simple. You know, I signed a very strong proclamation. Iran was in big trouble when I left. They were broke. They didn't…