Trump details US goals in Iran
Triumph vindicates the objectives of the operation in Iran They are “clear.”
they include “destroy Iran’s missile capabilities” and “wipe out its navy”as well as preventing them from ever having nuclear weapons.
He adds that the country “cannot continue arming, financing and directing terrorist armies outside its borders.”
Trump then cites the apparent lack of progress in diplomatic negotiations as further justification for the attacks.
AND We thought we had a deal. But then they backed out and came back and we thought we had a deal and they backed out.. I said, you can’t deal with these people. You have to do it the right way.
Key events
‘Killing terrorists is good for America’: White House says 49 top Iranian leaders killed in Operation Epic Fury
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that So far, “49 of the Iranian regime’s most senior leaders” have been killed during Operation Epic Fury. This includes Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
“Preventing this radical regime and its terrorist leaders from threatening the United States and our core national security interests is a clear-headed and necessary goal,” he wrote in a post on X.
lucy campbell
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday praised US and Israeli military action against Iran.saying it was degrading Tehran’s ability to get its hands on nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities, but said NATO itself would not be involved.
“It’s really important what the United States is doing here, together with Israel, because it is eliminating and degrading Iran’s ability to get its hands on nuclear capability, ballistic missile capability,” he told German ARD television in Brussels.
“There is absolutely no plan for NATO to be dragged into this or be part of it, other than for individual allies to do what they can to enable what the Americans are doing together with Israel,” he added. Rutte also offered similar praise about the operation during a Fox News interview today.
Earlier, when Donald Trump addressed reporters for the first time since the United States launched a coordinated attack with Israel against Iran, in particular He did not urge Iranians to rise up against the government as he has done previously in recent weeks..
Despite routinely denouncing the Iranian regime, Pete Hegseth said Operation Epic Fury is “It is not the so-called war of regime change, but the regime did change”.
Trump also stressed that the main objectives of the US attack are to destroy Iran’s military capabilities, from missiles to the country’s navy, and ultimately prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
Haroon Siddique
There was consensus among legal experts The Guardian spoke to that the initial US and Israeli attacks on Iran were illegal.
The Israeli president, Isaac HerzogHe told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that the fact that Iran was “planning a bomb” was enough to justify the attacks. According to article 51 of the United Nations Charter there is the right to self-defense in response to an armed attack. A broader interpretation of international law has been that a state has the right to use force in response to an “imminent threat.”
Susan Breauprofessor of international law and senior research associate at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, said: “Even the doctrine of imminent threat [threat of] The use of force is highly controversial. Scholars are divided over what it really means. But in this case, there does not appear to be any evidence of an imminent threat from Iran.”
Several experts cited Donald Trump’s claim to have destroyed Iran’s nuclear program last year as evidence that directly countered the suggestion of an imminent threat.
Herzog highlighted Iran’s threats to “annihilate” Israel, but Victor Kattan, assistant professor of public international law at the University of Nottingham, said: “Having lurid rhetoric or threatening violence in itself does not give a state the right to use preventive force.”
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George Chidi
At the Third Way conference in Charleston, South Carolina, a gathering of political activists seeking to improve the Democratic Party’s appeal among moderate voters, attendees are taking on the attack on Iran and how to talk about it.
MichiganThe state legislative delegation sent several members to the conference.
“I would say I am not mourning the regime in Iran. The Ayatollah is a maniac,” he said. joey andresrepresentative of the state of Michigan. “These guys just massacred 30,000 peaceful protesters. But As someone whose formative years in high school and college were during the Iraq War, I have a real reflection that this was neither thought out nor downright legal..”
The attack goes against promises donald trump made as a candidate in 2024, he said Jennifer Conlinalso representative of the state of Michigan.
“Trump said he wouldn’t make any kind of regime change when he was at rallies across the country when he was running for president, and this is truly a violation of everything he said he was going to do.“, said.
state representative Mai Xiong of Michigan said the attack distracts from the pressing concerns of his constituents.
“I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and that’s why I’m thinking about all the people who are affected by this conflict“Xiong said. “There is a conflict there and there is displaced peopleand I’m worried because we have an immigration crisis in our own country and we’re going to go to another country, bomb this country and leave people in ruins.”
She continued: “I am really worried about the family members, the children who were murdered in the most recent event. … When we have people here in our country, who are struggling to pay for health care and food, we are more concerned about what is happening in another country, and I think that is wrong. We really need to take care of our people here in America first..”
Triumph recognized three U.S. Army soldiers with the Medal of Honor, and two of the decorations were awarded posthumously.
Triumph Now we are talking about the military personnel who will be honored at this medal ceremony. I’ll let you know if he mentions Iran again.
Triumph says the country mourns the loss of the four U.S. service members who died in combat and thanks U.S. military personnel.
He also briefly begins to ramble about how much he loves the gold curtains in the East Room and his wife’s feelings about the White House ballroom renovations.
Trump says US mission in Iran is ‘substantially ahead’
Triumph he says US is already “substantially ahead” of its time projections.
he says At first they projected between four and five weeks, but they add that they have “the capacity to last much longer.”.
He adds that the United States had predicted four weeks to end Iran’s military leadership“and… that was done in about an hour, so we’re way ahead of schedule.”
Trump details US goals in Iran
Triumph vindicates the objectives of the operation in Iran They are “clear.”
they include “destroy Iran’s missile capabilities” and “wipe out its navy”as well as preventing them from ever having nuclear weapons.
He adds that the country “cannot continue arming, financing and directing terrorist armies outside its borders.”
Trump then cites the apparent lack of progress in diplomatic negotiations as further justification for the attacks.
AND We thought we had a deal. But then they backed out and came back and we thought we had a deal and they backed out.. I said, you can’t deal with these people. You have to do it the right way.
Iran with nuclear weapons would be an ‘intolerable threat’ to the Middle East and the US.
Trump continues:
An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons. It would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people..
Our own country would be threatened, and almost was..
“The purpose of [Iran’s] “The rapidly growing missile program was intended to protect their nuclear weapons development and make it extraordinarily difficult for anyone to prevent them from making these highly prohibited nuclear weapons by us.” Triumph says.
We were the ones who complained. We were the ones who wanted this to end. But everyone was behind us. They just didn’t have the courage to say it.