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“Iran” said in 203 of 565 transcripts, 828 times.
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…leadership, America is ending the threat posed by this radical regime, decimating Iran's capabilities with Operation Epic Fury, something that nobody has ever seen anything…
…even knows about except for a few of us. For 47 years, Iran has been known as the bully of the Middle East, but they…
…any longer. They're on the run. Last June, America's Armed Forces obliterated Iran's key nuclear facilities in one of the most spectacular military actions of…
…are absolutely obliterating them. Over the past 3 weeks, we've been hitting Iran's military capabilities at a level that few people have ever seen before…
…the—Barack Hussein Obama, what he did where he gave them the Iran nuclear deal, gave them free will toward a nuclear weapon. Basically, he…
…choose heavy sides. They didn't want to, because people were concerned with Iran. In other words, there was a big black cloud over the Middle…
…And it's very appropriate for what's taken place, if you know, in Iran, because we knocked out their navy, we knocked out their air force…
…I announced earlier, based on preliminary conversations between the United States and Iran over the past 2 days, I've directed the Department of War to…
…understand, I know my whole life has been a negotiation, but, with Iran, we've been negotiating for a long time. And this time they mean…
…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…
…than almost anybody. Peace through strength. But you know what? I've watched Iran for a long time. I called them out 20 years ago when…
…strongly, like I do, about wars. And I say, "Do you think Iran is violent, and do you think their people are violent?" "Yes, the…
…these are naïve people that, frankly, are stupid. If you believe that Iran should have a nuclear weapon, there's something wrong with you, because they…
…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…
…we had some very good results today, as you probably heard, in Iran. Very strong results—militarily, results. We're talking to countries about policing the…
…with them. Militarily, we've—as far as I'm concerned, we've essentially defeated Iran. I guess they can have a little bit of fight back but…
…But we're doing very well with respect to that whole situation in Iran. We are talking to other countries about working with us on the…
…this happen. On another front, an entirely different front, the situation with Iran is moving along very rapidly. It's doing very well. Our military is…
…at what they did in Venezuela and now what they're doing in Iran, it's been amazing. But when you look at all of this, everybody…
…the other things—Midnight Hammer, getting rid of the nuclear threat from Iran, which was a big moment in history, in my opinion; and the…
…could say they're pretty well complete. We've wiped every single force in Iran out very completely. Most of Iran's naval power has been sunk. It's…
…but they're not meant to fight against us. We continue to target Iran's drone and missile capabilities. Their drones are way down. Their drone manufacturing…
…If you look at what happened with Jimmy Carter, with—also with Iran. But if you look at what happened with the helicopters and the…
…the enemy in an overwhelming display of technical skill and military force. Iran's drone and missile capability is being utterly demolished. The navy is gone…
…relent until the enemy is totally and decisively defeated. As— . And remember, Iran did so many bad things. They were really—if you look at…
…my opinion, and based on what I've seen, that was done by Iran. We think it was done by Iran. Because they're very inaccurate, as…
…with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran. I said, "unconditional," not conditional. I said "unconditional." It's where they cry…
…whatsoever. If they are, they're not doing a very good job because Iran is not doing too well. Well, that's, you know, the ships' choices…
…what's going on with respect to our operation in the country of Iran. The United States military, together with the wonderful Israeli partners, continues to…
…levels that people have never seen before, actually. We're destroying more of Iran's missiles and drone capability every single hour, knocking them out like nobody…
…badly affected and hurt, it mostly came from—95 percent—Soleimani and Iran. And we—other Presidents lived with it. I didn't live with it…
…United States military continues to carry out large-scale combat operations in Iran to eliminate the grave threats posed to America by this terrible terrorist…
…nuclear program in Operation Midnight Hammer a short while ago, we warned Iran not to make any attempt to rebuild at a different location, because…
…nearly under threat. I was very proud to have knocked out the Iran nuclear deal by President Barack Hussein Obama. That was a horrible, horrible…
…if it were not for my involvement; Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda. And, of…
…why, in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation…
…it had been the policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Many decades. Since they seized control of…
…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…
…a real force, and you see that with what we did in Iran with the B–2 bombers—a lot of you were involved in…
…very much. Appreciate it. And last summer, I ordered devastating strikes on Iran's key nuclear facilities in something that was called Operation Midnight Hammer. That's…
…medals. But that was Operation Midnight Hammer, achieving total obliteration of the Iran nuclear potential capability. Totally obliterated. And think: Every single one of those…
…1 trillion we're spending on the military. And in June, we obliterated Iran's nuclear capacity in Operation Midnight Hammer. You saw that. People have been…
…just—and by the way, there's another beautiful armada floating beautifully toward Iran right now. So we'll see. I hope they make a deal. I…
…country is proud for—the attack on Venezuela, the attack on the Iran nuclear capability. Wiped it out. I mean, be—first administration, Soleimani, the…
…America is respected again on the world stage. That's another topic. Obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capability, and Operation Midnight Hammer was one of the most…
…and maybe much more than that." They're both nuclear countries. Israel and Iran. Egypt and Ethiopia were going to fight over a dam, and I…