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_Published 2026-03-02. The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during the military strikes by the United States and Israel on Feb. 28 has triggered the most consequential moment of transition for the Islamic Republic since he came to power in 1989. On Monday, Israel and the United States continued strikes on Iran in a campaign that U.S. President Donald Trump said would likely take several weeks._


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## Transcript

Today, the 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 regime. Following our obliteration of Iran's 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 they were unable to use the ones we so powerfully blew up. But they ignored those warnings and refused to cease their pursuit of nuclear weapons. In addition, the regime's conventional ballistic missile program was growing rapidly and dramatically, and this posed a very clear, colossal threat to America and our forces stationed overseas.

Our objectives are clear. First, we're destroying Iran's missile capabilities, and you see that happening on an hourly basis and their capacity to produce brand new ones and pretty good ones they make second. We're annihilating their navy. We've knocked out already ten ships there at the bottom of the sea. Third, we're ensuring that the world's number one sponsor of terror can never obtain a nuclear weapon, never going to have a nuclear weapon. We're already substantially ahead of our time projections. But whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes, we will always. And we have. Right from the beginning, we projected 4 to 5 weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that.

We'll do it. Whatever. Somebody said today, they said, oh, well, the president wants to do it really quickly. After that, he'll get bored. I don't get bored. There's nothing boring about this. Do you agree with.

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