U.S. President Donald Trump advised the Iranian armed forces to put down their arms or face “sure loss of life” and its folks to stand up and “seize management of your future” as “main” strikes towards Tehran commenced.
Joint American-Israeli strikes towards Iran passed off over night time, with U.S. President Donald Trump addressing each the nation and the folks of Iran. Saying the strikes to remove “imminent threats from the Iranian regime” which “instantly endangers the USA, our troops, our bases abroad, and our allies all through the world”, Trump mentioned: “A short while in the past, the USA Navy started main fight operations in Iran”.
Iranian retaliatory strikes have been launched towards Israel.
The strikes are meant to destroy Iran’s stockpiles of missiles and to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s missile manufacturing trade, the President mentioned. Most significantly, Trump mentioned, was stopping Iranian nuclear-tipped long-range missiles from ever threatening the American mainland or America’s allies in Europe.
TEHRAN, IRAN – FEBRUARY 28: (EDITORS NOTE: Retransmission with alternate crop.) A plume of smoke rises after an explosion on February 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. After explosions have been seen within the Iranian capital, the workplace of the Israeli Protection Minister issued an announcement saying it had launched a preemptive strike towards the nation. (Picture by Getty Pictures)
President Trump mentioned:
Iran is the world’s no.1 state sponsor of terror and has just lately killed tens of 1000’s of its personal folks [… which is] growing lengthy vary missiles that may now threaten our superb buddies and allies in Europe, our troops stationed abroad, and will seen attain the American homeland.
… for these causes the USA navy has undertaken an enormous and ongoing operation to forestall this very depraved radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core nationwide safety pursuits. We’re going to destroy their missiles and raze their missile trade to the bottom. It’s going to be completely, once more, obliterated.
Whereas noting “each potential step” to minimise risk to U.S. navy personnel had been taken, President Trump warned the fight operations afoot have been of enough scale that there could also be casualties. He mentioned:
I don’t make this assertion calmly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of brave American heroes could also be misplaced and we could have casualties. That usually occurs in conflict.
However we’re not doing this for now, we’re doing it for the longer term and it’s a noble mission. We pray for each service member as they selflessly threat their lives to make sure Individuals and our kids won’t ever be threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran. We ask God to guard all of our heroes in hurt’s means and we belief that along with his assist the boys and girl of the armed forces will prevail.
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