Ted Cruz

We took out their Navy, sinking more than 140 naval ships.

It's the single largest naval defeat since World War II.

And all of that is on top of the fact that we took out the Ayatollah and virtually the entirety of the military leadership.

Here's what U.S.

Central Commander Admiral Bradley Cooper had to say.

He said, quote, we set out to dismantle Iran's military capability and we clearly accomplished this task.

He said Iran's conventional military, quote, built over 40 years at the cost of billions of dollars, has been eliminated.

He further elaborated, quote, our core strategic military objectives have been achieved after destroying Iran's missile, drone, and naval capabilities and their defensive industrial base.

outlining what he characterized as a comprehensive dismantling of Iran's war machine.

The CENTCOM commander emphasized the scale of the operation.

We conducted more than 13,000, let me repeat that, 13,000 strikes on Iranian military targets.

We flew thousands upon thousands of combat missions over Iran.

And as Admiral Cooper put it, quote,

in less than 40 days, you destroyed the military that Iran had built for over 40 years.

He also said more than 50,000 American service members took part in the operation, and he called it a mission of profound consequences, which exceeded each and every expectation for what the forces achieved.

Then he went on to say, quote, we remain present, we remain vigilant.

And we remain ready if called.

And he added that the United States forces would continue to stand, quote, shoulder to shoulder with regional partners to maintain, quote, the most sophisticated and largest active air defense umbrella in the world.

That is a big deal.

The success that was carried out was extraordinary.