Speaking nationwide at 8:00 p.m. on June 21 (US time), President Donald Trump said: "Not long ago, the US military conducted airstrikes targeting three key Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. People have heard of those names for many years when they built this terrible destructive machine. Our goal is to destroy Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities and end the nuclear threat to Iran."
"Tonight, I can report to the whole world that the airstrikes have been a resounding success in terms of military. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities were completely and completely destroyed."
"Iran now has to choose peace. Otherwise, future attacks will be much bigger and much easier."
"For the past 40 years, Iran has been shouting "destroy the US, destroy Israel". They murdered our people, strangled their limbs with road guards - that is their "profession". We have lost more than 1,000 people, and hundreds of thousands of people across the Middle East and the world have died directly because of this hatred. In particular, many people died under the hands of their general, Qassem Soleimani".
"I have decided not to let this continue for a long time. It's not going on. I would like to thank and congratulate Prime Minister Netanyahu. We have worked together as a team perhaps an unprecedented team and we have come a long way to remove this terrible threat to Israel.
"I would like to thank the Israeli military for the wonderful work they have done, and most importantly, I would like to congratulate the great patriots of the United States - who have operated the wonderful machines tonight - and the entire US military for a campaign that the world has not seen for decades. Hopefully we will no longer need them on such a large scale. I really hope so."
"I also want to congratulate the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Razin Caine, an excellent general and all the talented military minds who participated in this attack. With all that, it can't continue."
"There will be peace, or there will be a tragedy for Iran - a tragedy much greater than what we have seen in the past eight days."
"Remember, there are still many other goals. Tonight's attack is the most difficult of them and possibly the most dangerous. But if peace does not come quickly, we will attack other targets with accuracy, speed and skill. Most of those targets can be eliminated in just a few minutes. No army in the world can do what we have just done, or even nothing comparable. No army has ever done what happened not long ago."
"5am, General Cain and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth will hold a press conference at 8am at the Pentagon. And I just want to thank everyone, especially God. I want to say: We love You, God, and we love our great army - please protect them. God bless the Middle East. God bless Israel. And God bless America. Thank you very much. Thank you".
