Secretary of War Pete Hegseth explained that the Trump administration’s main objective in Operation Epic Fury is to ensure Iran will never have nuclear weapons.
“For 47 long years, the expansionist and Islamist regime in Tehran has waged a savage, one sided war against America,” Hegseth reminded everyone. “They didn’t always declare it openly, except for their constant chance of death to America. They did it through the blood of our people, car bombs in Beirut, rocket attacks on our ships, murders at our embassies, roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan, funded and armed by Iranian Quds Force and IRGC killers.”
Hegseth added: “We didn’t start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.”
Therefore, Iran should never have nuclear weapons.
To make that happen, the administration targeted three parts of Iran.
“The mission of Operation Epic Fury is laser-focused,” said Hegseth. “Destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy their navy and other security infrastructure, and they will never have nuclear weapons.”
Hegseth stressed that the regime had every chance to make a deal with America after Operation Midnight Hammer destroyed Iran’s nuclear program:
We said, rebuild it and we’ll stop you again, this time, far worse.Well, President Trump, Secretary Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, they bent over backwards for real diplomacy, offering pathway after pathway to peace. I watched it. I was there. They tried, over and over and over again, earnest attempts at peace.The former regime had every chance to make a peaceful and sensible deal, but Tehran was not negotiating. They were stalling, buying time to reload their missile stockpiles and restart their nuclear ambitions, their goal hold us hostage, threatening to strike our forces.Well, President Trump doesn’t play those games. And as Secretary Rubio said after the Maduro raid, if you don’t know now, you know, President Trump puts America and Americans first. He doesn’t hesitate, and neither do our troops.
“If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitation, and we will kill you,” Hegseth warned other terrorist groups and regimes.
“President Trump has also been very consistent crazy regimes like Iran, hell bent on prophetic Islamist delusions,” Hegseth added. “[They] cannot have nuclear weapons.”
Hegseth pointed out that “Iran was building powerful missiles and drones to create a conventional shield for their nuclear blackmail ambitions.”
Those dangers put America and our allies in danger.
“Iran had a conventional gun to out as they tried to lie their way to a nuclear bomb,” said Hegseth.
Hegseth also reiterated that the operation is not a regime change, even though it led to the death of the ayatollah.
It’s just an added bonus.
“Turns out the regime who chanted Death to America and death to Israel was gifted death from America and death from Israel,” boasted Hegseth. “This is not a so called regime change war, but the regime sure did change, and the world is better off for it.”
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