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Trump Full Speech on Iran Strikes, US Casualties & Regime Change
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5:54Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump said the bombing campaign against Iran will continue until its objectives are achieved, calling on the nation’s leaders to capitulate as a report indicated at least one top official in Tehran sought to resume nuclear talks with the US.
Trump on Sunday re-confirmed the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and said the US and Israel had struck hundreds of targets in Iran including Revolutionary Guard facilities and air defenses. The US military’s Central Command announced Sunday that three US service members were killed and five “seriously wounded” during operations against the Islamic Republic, but gave no further details.
Trump, who campaigned for the presidency on a pledge not to endanger American troops in the Middle East, called their deaths part of “the righteous mission” in a video posted on social media. “There will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is.”
“Combat operations continue at this time in full force and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved,” Trump added, without elaborating on the objectives. He called on Iranian military and police to surrender “for full immunity or face certain death.”
Trump said he has agreed to talk with Iran’s new leadership, The Atlantic reported, citing a conversation with him. In a brief interview with the New York Times on Sunday, Trump said the assault on Iran could last “four or five weeks” while calling on Iran’s generals to either hand power to the nation’s people or embrace a model similar to Venezuela, whose new leader has been compliant with US demands after the ouster of Nicolas Maduro.
“What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” Trump told the newspaper. He added that he had “three very good choices” to lead Iran, without elaborating. Trump later told ABC News that the initial attack “was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,” adding: “It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead.”
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