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Sep 19, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that doesn't include the destruction of a vast potential nuclear disaster in Iran, which we wiped out—totally, as I say, obliterated. We obliterated it…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…them done. We ended up stopping the nuclear—potential nuclear disaster in Iran with, I think, one of the greatest military trips ever taken. Nobody…
Sep 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…that one maybe even more than an attack, what he did with Iran. You saw the success of that operation. It was perfect. In fact…
…a perfect attack, and it knocked out any possible nuclear capability for Iran, which nobody wanted to see, and we weren't going to put up…
Sep 2, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…of Staff, who has been so incredible, including what took place in Iran, knocking out a potential nuclear power for a long time to come…
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 25, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…couple, and we're not including in there the—what we did with Iran, stopping their nuclear play. They would have had—within a month or…
…ahead, please. Yes. Well, look at the mission you just accomplished with Iran. Thirty-six hours back and forth. Flawless. Every bomb hit its target…
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…
Aug 13, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…And on top of that, we wiped out the nuclear capability of Iran. Obliterated it. It's turned out to be a correct word, by the…
Aug 8, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…In addition, as you know, we took out the nuclear capability of Iran. And to use a term that people tried to dispute without any…
Aug 7, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…that's what happened. Great job. And he did an incredible job in Iran. I want to thank you very much. Great job, General. Deputy Secretary…
Aug 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 4 times
…this one. You know, we've solved five wars. Plus, add to that Iran, where we wiped out their nuclear capacity for weapons. They would have…
…please. Well, we have stopped wars in the Middle East by stopping Iran from having a nuclear weapon. And they are—they're—you know, they…
…in the Middle East. If you think about what we did with Iran, Iran was the perpetrator of hate, a very evil place, and I…
Aug 5, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…like this to be the sixth, frankly. And that doesn't even include Iran with, you know, obliterating their nuclear hall, because they would have had…
Jul 31, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…you people didn't cover it very well. Yes, please. Go ahead. Well, Iran has been acting very badly. They were decimated. Their nuclear capability, that…
…again, but they haven't been saying the right thing. I will say, Iran has not been saying the right thing. They have not been speaking…
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 23, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…ago, when you saw the way those incredible B–2s flew into Iran and took out an entire nuclear potential deadly force. But I want…
Jul 22, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…who knows where that would have ended up. And I stopped it. Iran—you saw, we took out their entire capability of nuclear. Kosovo and…
Jul 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…You saw it recently when you looked at what we did in Iran, where we knocked out their nuclear capability—totally knocked out that—it's…
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 15, 2025 Other 1 time
…with respect to making a deal with a couple of them, like Iran. I'd love to help you." I say, "Vladimir, I only want help…
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 13, 2025 Other 1 time
…with the strike that we had getting rid of nuclear weapons in Iran. That was a big, big strike. And you know, when the pilots…
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…
Jul 6, 2025 Speech / ceremony 2 times
…Israel, and one of the things is probably a permanent deal with Iran. In other words, they have to give up all of the things…
…had any of it. You wouldn't have had the recent showdown with Iran. You wouldn't have had any of it, and you wouldn't have had…
Jul 4, 2025 Other 4 times
…can't do it now. Well, we're going to have a meeting on Iran, obviously, and you know, the success. It was a great success—blown…
…that or Gaza. You could say Gaza. You could say I inherited Iran. We did something about it. We've gotten a lot of hostages out…
…Crown Prince. Great people. They congratulated us on the incredible attack on Iran. It was an attack on something that you can't have: a nuclear…
Jul 4, 2025 Speech / ceremony 1 time
…helicopters crashing into each other. It was a disaster. The hostages in Iran. And we had just the opposite. We didn't have any crashes. We…
Jul 4, 2025 Other 1 time
…one of the things we talked about, the Abraham Accords. Now that Iran has been taken out, in terms of a nuclear threat—and they…
Jul 3, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…have days like that. We have days like we just had in Iran. That's the kind of days we have. Complete obliteration. It turned out…
…tell me they have to take a shot at us. This was Iran, very respectful. That means they respect us. Because we dropped 14 bombs…
…to tell you. Can you imagine? They were nice enough—this is Iran—to call me and tell me that they would like to shoot…
Jul 3, 2025 Other 3 times
…a pretty long call. We talked about a lot of things, including Iran. And we also talked about, as you know, the war with Ukraine…
…going to see. Steve is a great guy. He's a great negotiator. Iran does want to speak, and I think they'd like to speak to…
…up, and, you know, they were—they were both exhausted, frankly, but Iran really got beat up. And I think they want to meet. I…
Jul 1, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…be prosecuted also for having given false reports—— ——on the attack in Iran. They were giving totally false reports. It was totally obliterated. And our…
…He wants to end it too. We had a tremendous success with Iran. They weren't happy. Somebody said, "When are you going to sign?" I…
…we'll have whatever we want. We'll get from—whatever we want from Iran. And I think, and I hope, they want to have a good…
Jul 1, 2025 Other 1 time
…great success we had. I mean, we had an incredible success in Iran, we had an incredible success like, really, nobody's had in many, many…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony Kalshi: Trump Meets with Leaders of DRC and Rwanda 3 times
…short months, we've now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, and the D.R.C. and Rwanda, and a couple of others also. Serbia…
…we have the greatest military in the world. They showed that in Iran. Those pilots, they flew for 36 hours and—think of that—and…
…have—they actually have nuclear weapons. You know, when you talk about Iran, they were trying to get it. But India has nuclear weapons. Pakistan…
Jun 27, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…a hell of a week, hasn't it? It's been some week. So Iran wants to meet. As you know, their sites were obliterated—their very…
…Putin called up, and he said, "I'd love to help you with Iran." I said: "Do me a favor: I'll handle Iran. Help me with…
…ahead. You tell me when it gets boring. Okay? Are you from Iran? Okay. Yes. Sure. Without question, absolutely. Turned out to be unbelievable. But…
Jun 25, 2025 Press conference 17 times
…weekend, the United States successfully carried out a massive precision strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities. And it was very, very successful. It was called…
…so. Not only have we dealt decisively with the critical threat of Iran's nuclear program, which was what I wanted—I said, "Iran cannot have…
…totally inoperable." It was devastated. "We assess that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for…
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 24, 2025 Speech / ceremony 7 times
…very hard, and that shouldn't have happened. And then, as you know, Iran hit them very hard last night because of that. I don't think…
…of it. I think they don't want it to happen again. And Iran is not going to have a nuclear weapon, by the way. I…
…They're not going to have a nuclear weapon. The last thing on Iran's mind right now is nuclear weapons. Which? No, no. If there was…
Jun 24, 2025 Other 2 times
…the pilots. They're after me. They want to try and demean. No, Iran will never rebuild its nuclear—from there? Absolutely not. That place is…
…on them. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel is going out this morning…
Jun 21, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…they built this horribly destructive enterprise. Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by…
…report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the…
…attacks will be far greater and a lot easier. For 40 years, Iran has been saying: "Death to America. Death to Israel." They have been…
Jun 20, 2025 Speech / ceremony 3 times
…losing. But we're ready, willing, and able, and we've been speaking to Iran, and we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Just time to…
…to their senses. That's all it is. No, they didn't help. No. Iran doesn't want to speak to Europe. They want to speak to us…
…well, in terms of war. And I think you would say that Iran is doing less well. It's a little bit hard to get somebody…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 11 times
…war, is doing pretty well. Yes, please. Yes. No, well, they know Iran very well—better than most—and they're not happy about anything. It's…
…Israel. They know them both, actually, but they probably—maybe they know Iran better. But they see what's going on, and they—he agreed with…
…involved either, but I've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I've been saying it for a long…
Jun 18, 2025 Speech / ceremony 8 times
…knows what I'm going to do. I can tell you this, that Iran has got a lot of trouble, and they want to negotiate. And…
…They're human. They're human beings. I know a lot of people from Iran—from New York, from Washington—mostly from New York. They're incredible people…
…just not a threat you can have. And we've been threatened by Iran for many years. You know, if you go back and look at…
Jun 16, 2025 Other 1 time
…me? We're doing pretty well. Right now we're doing pretty well. Remember, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. You know, we don't…
Jun 16, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…Israel is doing very well, as you probably noticed. And I gave Iran 60 days, and they said no, and on the 61st, you saw…
…something will happen, but a deal will be signed. And I think Iran is foolish not to sign one. No. No. They—— Look, Iran should…
…to talk in person. I want to see no nuclear weapon in Iran, and we're well on our way to making sure that happens. What…
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 12, 2025 Speech / ceremony 5 times
…in aviation history. Yes, second. Well, I'd love to avoid the conflict. Iran is going to have to negotiate a little bit tougher, meaning they're…
…something that could very well happen. Look, it's very simple, not complicated: Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Other than that, I want them to…
…none of it would have happened. You wouldn't have the Israel problem. Iran was broke. They had no money. We had big sanctions on them…