Trump gives a national address on the Iran war. Here are the takeaways.
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Good morning. Trump addresses the nation on the war with Iran.
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What were the key points of Trump's national address on the Iran war?
It's Thursday, April 2nd. I'm Cecilia Lay, and this is Apple News Today. Last night, President Trump delivered his first national address since the conflict with Iran began. The speech spanned across his stated objectives, achievements, and timelines. He claimed his goals had been largely achieved, but also threatened major escalation. By the end, markets and analysts were still left guessing when and how the war might come to an end. Trump began with an extended defense of the war's rationale. He said Iran was a decades-long unresolved problem and that diplomacy had ultimately failed repeatedly. And he presented a confident picture of the war's progress.
We've done all of it. Their Navy is gone. Their Air Force is gone. Their missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies, and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb.
Iran's armed forces have been severely depleted, according to official figures, but its missiles are still flying into Israel and neighboring Gulf countries.
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As for the bomb, Iran's capabilities appear to have been rolled back significantly. But the U.N. 's watchdog agency believes Iran still possesses hundreds of pounds of uranium underground, and defense experts believe a mission to recover it could be extremely risky. Trump indicated he was happy to leave it in the ground.
The nuclear sites that we obliterated with the B-2 bombers have been hit so hard that it would take months to get near the nuclear dust.
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And we have it under intense satellite surveillance and control. If we see them make a move, even a move for it will hit them. with missiles very hard again.
He also emphasized that all objectives would be met, quote, shortly, though he offered no clear timeline for the U.S. to complete its operations in Iran. And as he's done several times over the past couple of weeks, Trump promised both a winding down and a dramatic escalation.
We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong, In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.
But so far, talks have yielded no results, at least publicly. And in his threats of escalation, Trump repeated going after Iran's key infrastructure.
If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously.
Iran's decision to choke the Strait of Hormuz has thrown the world into economic turmoil. But Trump did not say much about its future, except to offer this advice for allied countries.
Go to the Strait and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves. Iran has been... Essentially decimated. The hard part is done. So it should be easy. And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will. Resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down.
Gas prices have risen steadily in the U.S. since the Strait was closed, and leading economic figures have warned of sustained global damage if nothing changes soon. Meanwhile, forcing the Strait open would be a complex military challenge, and no country has shown any enthusiasm for it so far. Brett McGurk is a diplomat who served the previous five administrations. He told CNN Trump's position left the door open to Iran emerging from the war with a major strategic asset.
If Iran comes out of this controlling the Strait of Hormuz and being able to meter ships that go through there and taking a cut of every ship, they're going to make hundreds of millions and billions of dollars.
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