Trump strikes Iran

    by HOMERED: Donald Trump

    President Trump's long-awaited response is now playing out in real time. CENTCOM has confirmed that U.S. Central Command forces began launching additional self-defense strikes today at 5:15 p.m. ET against multiple targets in Iran. The official statement notes that the action is underway as American military operations continue.

    Transcript (en)

    You said this morning about Iran, you said that they've taken too long to get to a deal. I want to make sure I quote you correctly. You said that now they will have to pay the price. What did you mean by that specifically? Well, we're going to be attacking them and attacking them very hard. Resuming bombing? Yeah, well, we are. Based on the helicopter, I guess we have the right to do that. You know, they shot down a very, very incredible, actually an incredible machine. And at first they said they didn't do it. Then they admitted they did it. sort of easy because we have the we had the bomb we actually have the bomb got very lucky that bomb didn't explode that bomb was lodged in the helicopter it didn't explode it was on fire but it didn't explode it's just those two guys they knew how to fly but they got very lucky and uh then we had the unmanned boat going very very fast at speeds that you wouldn't want to go that's why it's unmanned i guess because nobody can go in that but uh they rescued so the both Both people are, fortunately, the pilots are okay. No, no, I've been working with Iran for a number of months, and they should sign their deal. It's a good deal. It doesn't give them the right to have a nuclear weapon. In fact, it totally prohibits them from ever having a nuclear weapon. And it was just tap, tap, tap. I don't know what they're doing. So they then shot out a shot at our helicopter. Very expensive helicopter by the way but much more importantly the two men Fortunately they okay But an amazing rescue If you ever get a clip you won believe the rescue how cool it was The equipment we have. Look, we have the strongest military in the world. And I gave them a break at the request of Pakistan, the field marshal and the prime minister of Pakistan are great. We stopped them from going to war with India. You would have had a nuclear war if it wasn't for me. But they became friendly to me, very friendly, and they're close to Iran, and they work. And they still are working on trying them to do what's right. But we want a deal that's meaningful. We want a deal that works. We don't want to just have a Barack Hussein Obama deal, JCPOA, the worst deal. That was a path to a nuclear. It's the exact opposite. You know, I like on television, they say, oh, they should have kept that deal. First of all, it was over. It was a short-term deal. That deal was a path to a nuclear weapon. This is a path against a nuclear weapon. You can't have a nuclear weapon. His was a path to a nuclear weapon. They were developing during his administration, nuclear weapon. If they had a nuclear weapon, there'd be no Israel, there'd be no Middle East, and they would have absolutely shot at us. So, we'll see what happens. But we hit them hard yesterday, And we're going to hit them again hard today, in case you miss it, in case you don't turn on your television set. And we'll see what happens with the deal. We were really close to a deal, but they keep tapping us along. They keep playing us for suckers because, you know what? They dealt with some very stupid presidents. I have to say that.