ExclusiveThe Beginning of "2026 Iran War"

For these reasons, the United States military is undertaking a massive and ongoing operation to prevent this very wicked, radical dictatorship from threatening America and our core national security interests. We are going to destroy their missiles and raise their missile industry to the ground. It will be totally, again, obliterated. Over the past 36 hours, the United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury. We have hit hundreds of targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems. Just now, it was announced that we knocked out nine ships, plus their naval building. Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is dead. Forty-nine and counting of the most senior Iranian regime leaders, including the supreme leader, have already been wiped off the face of the earth. I want to also extend our prayers and condolences to the families of the six U.S. military service members who have been lost in Operation Epic Fury. We're already substantially ahead of our time projections, but whatever the time is, it's okay. Whatever it takes, we will always, and we have, right from the beginning, we projected four to five weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that. We'll do it.