- In his first remarks since the strikes began in Iran, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. will continue "large-scale combat operations” in the country.
- Trump justified the military action by stating that Iran's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes presented a "colossal threat to America."
- He asserted that the US possessed the capability to sustain the conflict for "far longer" than the initial four to five-week assessment.
- Trump dismissed suggestions that he would "get bored" with the conflict, highlighting that the US had dislodged Iran's military leadership in approximately an hour, significantly ahead of the predicted four-week timeline.
- Trump’s remarks were delivered at the start of a ceremony to present the Medal of Honor to a trio of Army soldiers. Earlier in the day he told CNN in a phone interview that U.S. forces were “knocking the c**p” out of Iran and opined that the war was “going very well” thus far.
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