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“Iran” said in 203 of 565 transcripts, 828 times.
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Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in Southern Boulevard Dedication Ceremony 2 times
…people." And it was amazing, and it's an honor. And we obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer. That was another operation that…
…we would have, but maybe we wouldn't have been so successful in Iran had he been around. But he destroyed a lot of lives. And…
Jan 16, 2026 Other 2 times
…you saw that with Venezuela. You saw that with the attack on Iran, with the knocking out their nuclear capability, potentially. So yes, we're going…
…about that. Go ahead. Well, we're going to see. As you know, Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people. They were going to hang…
Jan 16, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Health Roundtable 1 time
…this precision just like a Venezuela; just like the attack on the Iran nuclear weapons, which wiped that out; just like all of the other…
Jan 14, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump participates in a signing ceremony 2 times
…be talking about a couple of things. We have some news on Iran, which we're going to talk about. So they're going to sell chips…
…out what that all means—we've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping. It's stopped. It's stopping. And there's no plan for executions…
Jan 13, 2026 Other 5 times
…We're going to look at the whole situation that's going on in Iran. It's really bad stuff. Minnesota is going to have to take care…
…Governor and a corrupt Governor. But we'll straighten that out. But the—Iran is on my mind. When I see the kind of death that…
…I think so, yes. I think it's going to happen. Yes. Yes. Iran said that the last time I blew them up with the nuclear…
Jan 13, 2026 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks at the Detroit Economic Club 3 times
…we did al-Baghdadi flawless. We did Soleimani flawless. We did the Iran nuclear attack where we wiped out their nuclear capacity, which would have…
…way. You saw that I put tariffs on anybody doing business with Iran. It just went into effect today. And I say: Make Iran great…
Jan 13, 2026 Other 1 time
…say that the country is doing well. You saw my statement on Iran. You saw my statement on Minnesota. On Minnesota, we have taken out…
Jan 11, 2026 Other 7 times
…through it for years with me, being hit—Soleimani, al-Baghdadi, the Iran nuclear threat wiped out—don't you think—and then you just had…
…want peace. They want to have freedom. The protesters are after freedom. Iran has not allowed freedom for a long time. And the protesters, I…
…companies have totally abused. I'm not going to let it happen. With Iran? They do. They called—— ——yesterday. Iran called to negotiate, yes. Yesterday. The…
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…
Jan 3, 2026 Press conference Kalshi: Trump holds press conference on Venezuela 1 time
…the attack on al-Baghdadi, and the obliteration and decimation of the Iran nuclear sites just recently in an operation known as Midnight Hammer, all…
Dec 29, 2025 Press conference 10 times
…hundred percent. Don't forget, we made the plan possible by taking out Iran. And speaking of Iran, I hope they're not trying to build up…
…no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup. So I hope Iran is not trying to build up, as I've been reading that they're…
…know, these are major factions, and it started with our negotiation with Iran. I think it probably started with Soleimani. That was really where—you…
Dec 29, 2025 Other 4 times
…we were extremely victorious, to put it mildly. Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again, and if they are, we're going…
…the hell out of them. But hopefully, that's not happening. I heard Iran wants to make a deal. If they want to make a deal…
…overthrow of a regime. It's—they've got a lot of problems in Iran. They have tremendous inflation. Their economy is bust. Their economy is no…
Dec 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in North Carolina 1 time
…over the world. I settled eight wars in 10 months; destroyed the Iran nuclear threat; ended the war in Gaza; and got the release of…
Dec 17, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds an address to the nation 1 time
…I've restored American strength; settled eight wars in 10 months; destroyed the Iran nuclear threat; and ended the war in Gaza—bringing, for the first…
Dec 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a Hanukkah Reception 12 times
…we did—the best job of all, is we knocked out the Iran nuclear power. And they would have had that in—within a month…
…good President——don't forget, you had a President previously that believed in Iran. They ditched the entire world for Iran. That's why they signed the…
…not putting them in jails. We're deporting them. I terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. And this summer, we obliterated Iran's nuclear program like nobody…
Dec 15, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds Mexican Border Defense Medal Presentation 4 times
…Netanyahu has been, obviously, a very good one. Look, we took out Iran. We wiped out—with that plane right there, we wiped out—the…
…would have never been able to do that if—for instance, if Iran—if we didn't—with that B–2 bomber, right there on the…
…they did. Atomic Energy Commission confirmed it. So did—actually, so did Iran confirm it. They got knocked to hell. But if we didn't knock…
Dec 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump holds a signing ceremony 12 times
…a job, and that made peace possible, because everybody was afraid of Iran, and now they're not afraid of Iran anymore. And Iran would like…
…And the people that have seen the site said obliterated. And frankly, Iran said it was obliterated. And to show you how accurate it was…
…like, gone-zo. It's—one person actually used the term "obliterated," but Iran actually said that they probably can never go there again. They can…
Dec 9, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump speaks in Pennsylvania 3 times
…ISIS. He did a hell of a job in knocking out the Iran nuclear capability. We knocked out the Iran nuclear capability. Now compare that…
…Kosovo-Serbia; Pakistan and India—they were going at it; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia—you didn't know about that; Armenia and Azerbaijan; and…
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 27, 2025 Other Kalshi: Trump calls service members on Thanksgiving 2 times
…the strongest military anywhere in the world. And you saw that with Iran, with those beautiful B–2 bombers. They totally obliterated the nuclear—potential…
Nov 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends US - Saudi Investment Forum 1 time
…we took the dark cloud away from your country. It was called Iran and its nuclear capability, and we obliterated that very quickly and strongly…
Nov 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts Saudi Arabia for dinner 1 time
…and they call us, and we'll end up probably doing that. That's Iran. But when you really think about it, Your Majesty, I think that…
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 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump attends McDonald's Impact Summit 5 times
…saw that with the way we took out the nuclear capability of Iran, with those gorgeous B–2 bombers. They flew in there, and they…
…Room that you wouldn't believe. And they said, "Sir, they have entered Iran airspace." All of a sudden, you see da-da-da-da-da…
…they flew 37 hours flawlessly. Now, compare that to the Jimmy Carter Iran situation, with the helicopters crashing and the this and—oh, what a…
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…
Nov 16, 2025 Other 2 times
…et cetera, on any country doing business with Russia. They may add Iran to that, as you know. I suggested it. So any country that…
Nov 14, 2025 Other 4 times
…missiles. You saw that when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. Know—you know, for 22 years they wanted to do that. No…
…We did it. And Iran is a different place. By the way, Iran wants to negotiate a deal too. Everybody wants to negotiate with us…
…shortly. We've had tremendous interest in the Abraham Accords since we put Iran out of business. Okay? Thank you much. Thank you, everybody. Thank you
Nov 11, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Veterans Day address 2 times
…a real general. And congratulations on wiping out the nuclear capability of Iran in about a matter of seconds, once they got there. They traveled…
…much, what a job they did—that, in an instant, completely obliterated Iran's nuclear capability of which we have just ordered, I have say, many…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump hosts dinner with Central Asian Countries 6 times
…wanted to come in, but they couldn't because of the status of Iran. When Iran had a possibility of nuclear weapons, which they do not…
…had a hard time going against that. I understand that. Now that Iran has been very much decimated in terms of their nuclear and in…
…we took the sanctions off to give them a chance. And frankly, Iran has been asking if the sanctions could be lifted. Iran has got…
Nov 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump makes an annoucement 1 time
…powerful. I was very much in charge of that. When Israel attacked Iran first, that was—that was a great day for Israel because that…
Nov 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump at America Business Forum 2 times
…know, the key was when we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. All of a sudden, everybody said, "Wow, that was nice." They've been…
…know what? Tariffs—without tariffs, that would have never happened. Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Cambodia and Thailand. All of…
Oct 28, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump visits troops on USS George Washington 2 times
…Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, you saw that. How about those B–2 bombers? They went in…
Oct 25, 2025 Other 1 time
…the big thing was when we took out the nuclear power of Iran. When we took out that nuclear capability, which would have happened over…
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 15, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump Press Conference 11 times
…there wouldn't be peace. If we didn't destroy the nuclear capability of Iran, that deal would have never happened for two reasons. The Arab nations…
…to do it, because you have a very powerful—at that time—Iran is not powerful anymore, between what we—what Israel and us did…
…and missiles also going into Israel. But between what we did to Iran that way, with the, you know, "conventional," we will call it, and…
Oct 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Middle East Peace Ceremony 1 time
…no excuses. We don't have a Gaza, and we don't have an Iran as an excuse. That was a good excuse, but we don't have…
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 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Speech in Israel 17 times
…with you. Loved it. They worked so well together. But many of Iran's top terrorists, including nuclear scientists and commanders, have been extinguished from this…
…other guys love being on television." So we dropped 14 bombs on Iran's key nuclear facilities, totally, as I said originally, obliterating them. And that's…
…wouldn't feel comfortable making the deal that we have now—right?—if Iran had that nuclear weapon that they were about two months away from…
Oct 12, 2025 Other 7 times
…and he begged that you not do what they were doing with Iran? You remember that, right? Begged them. And they wouldn't even listen to…
…get along, and they had the opposite, because Biden and Obama backed Iran. And just so, when you talk about a thing like that, if…
…Iran, this wouldn't have worked. And had we not taken out the Iran nuclear facility and we made the same deal, it would have a…
Oct 10, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Oval Office Announcement 2 times
…of the countries have passed all these resolutions. Every country is there. Iran came in. I was very happy to see that. I was very…
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…
Oct 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…even had a signal—a very strong signal, as you know, from Iran. They'd like to see this done. Yes. Oh, that's good. Yes, I…
Oct 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Announcement 4 times
…most spectacular military feats the world has ever seen: the obliteration of Iran's nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer. How did that work out? Pretty…
…a submarine. Every one of them hit too. So I would say Iran was not particularly thrilled. They were going to have a nuclear weapon…
…22 years they were training to take out the nuclear potential of Iran. He said, "But it was only when you came along that we…
Sep 30, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…of violence, from the horrible plague that's taking place from within. The Iran nuclear power, the Iran—all of the—the great power that we…
…war, we went 14 for 14. We had 14—this is with Iran. We had 14 missiles coming at us. All 14 were knocked out…
Sep 29, 2025 Press conference Kalshi: Trump and Netanyahu Press Conference, Trump meets Netanyahu 6 times
…I have just concluded an important meeting on many vital issues, including Iran, trade, the expansion of the Abraham Accords, and, most importantly, we discussed…
…this will also lead to packing them. And who knows? Maybe even Iran can get in there. I hope. We expect—we hope we're going…
…a member. I long ago said, "I'll bet you at some point Iran will be a member of the Accords." And little did I realize…
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…
Sep 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump's Address to United Nations General Assembly 7 times
…Rwanda—a vicious, violent war that was; Pakistan and India; Israel and Iran; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Armenia and Azerbaijan. It included all of them…
…made containing these threats a top priority, starting with the nation of Iran. My position is very simple. The world's number-one sponsor of terror…
…extended a pledge of full cooperation in exchange for a suspension of Iran's nuclear program. The regime's answer was to continue their constant threats to…
Sep 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…that. We have—let's see, Cambodia, Armenia. We have Kosovo-Serbia, Israel-Iran, Egypt-Ethiopia. That's a beauty. They built a little dam in Ethiopia…
…that: India- Pakistan, Thailand-Cambodia, Armenia-Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo. Right? We stopped all of…
…get it done one way or the other. But I also obliterated Iran's nuclear hopes by totally annihilating their enriched uranium. And I'll tell you…