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over Iran's nuclear program. It is a great honor for us to announce that we have reached an agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue. Take a look at the deal he's making with Iran. He makes that deal, Israel maybe won't exist very long. Do you think we can get a really good crowd out here to protest this incompetent deal? They rip us off, they take our money, they make us look like fools, and we're going to do and we're going to get nothing. My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran. The Iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into. I am announcing a new strategy to address the full range of Iran's destructive actions. First, we will work with our allies to counter the regime's destabilizing activity and support for terrorist proxies in the region. Second, we will place additional sanctions on the regime to block their financing of terror. Third, we will address the regime's proliferation of missiles and weapons that threaten its neighbors' global trade and freedom of navigation. And finally, we will deny the regime all paths to a nuclear weapon. Based on the factual record I have put forward, I am announcing today that we cannot and will not make this certification. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. In a few moments, I will sign a presidential memorandum to begin reinstating U.S. nuclear sanctions on the Iranian regime. We will be instituting the highest level of economic sanction. The United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world, Qasem Soleimani. No Americans were harmed in last night's attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties. All of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained at our military bases. Our great American forces are prepared for anything. Iran appears to be standing down. Options in response to Iranian aggression. The United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime. But I would rather negotiate a deal. I hope that Iran, and I've written them a letter saying I hope you're going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing for them. You wrote a letter to the Khomeini. When did you send the letter? Yesterday. And I think they want to get that letter. The other alternative is we have to do something because you can't let them have a nuclear weapon. Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.