Iran

Key points recap: Donald Trump’s address to the nation on Iran

On Wednesday night President Donald Trump delivered a 17-minute national address on Iran.

Here’s a recap of key points in case you missed it:

• Trump announced that the U.S. military’s “core strategic objectives are nearing completion,” though offered no further information on those objectives.
• The president appeared to slur his words on several occasions during the speech.
• He claimed the joint U.S.-Israeli campaign, dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” had “delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield, victories like few people have ever seen before.”
• Trump repeated many of his same justifications for the month-old bombing campaign against Iran, including his claim there was an imminent threat of Tehran producing a nuclear weapon.
• He paid tribute to the 13 U.S. service members killed in the conflict and claimed their families had all told him to “finish the job.”
• Trump also once again blamed the rise in gas prices in the U.S. on the Iranian conflict and boasted the economy he had cultivated was strong enough to withstand it.