🇺🇸👊🏻Richard Citizen Journalist 👊🏻🇺🇸

Secretary of State Rubio warns - if Iran retaliates, it’ll be the worst mistake they ever made. Says the US can fly in and out of Iran at will. (100%. After the IAF spent 9 days obliterating any Iranian air defenses with more than 1,200 airstrikes)

Meanwhile... the IAF is relentlessly striking targets across Western Iran, including ballistic missiles and missile launchers.

VANCE: "We do not want war with Iran. We actually want peace, but we want peace in the context of them not having a nuclear weapons program — and that's exactly what the President accomplished last night."

OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER: Before and after photos of the Fordow Nuclear Facility in Iran.

VICE PRESIDENT VANCE: "We destroyed the Iranian nuclear program ... and we did it without endangering the lives of American pilots. That's an incredible thing."

HEGSETH: "This mission was not and has not been about regime change. The President authorized a precision operation to neutralize the threats to our national interests posed by the Iranian nuclear program."

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine: "The safety of our servicemembers and civilians remains our highest priority."

A government's first responsibility is to secure the safety of its citizens.

A nation's expection of unimpeded sovereignty ends when they terrorize and kill the citizens of other nations.

Trump's demand for the Islamic Republic to unconditionally surrender may seem like a simple military ultimatum. But there's more to it. The doctrine of hard line Islamic clerics is NEVER SURRENDER under any circumstances. Death is preferable to surrender. No one knows that better than Trump. He is literally demanding that they do the one thing they are not permitted to do. He is trolling them in plain sight, though most people are unaware of it. 😎

Reza Pahlavi: The strikes on the Islamic Republic’s three nuclear sites are the result of the regime’s catastrophic pursuit of nuclear weapons at the expense of the Iranian people. Ali Khamenei and his crumbling terrorist regime have failed the nation. As Khamenei considers how to respond from his underground bunker, I say to him: For the sake of the Iranian people, respond by stepping down, so the proud Iranian nation can leave the disastrous period of the Islamic Republic behind and start a new chapter of peace, prosperity and greatness. The only sure way to achieve peace is for this regime to now end. https://x.com/PahlaviReza/status/1936675708803170790

The Islamic regime should carefully consider the consequences of any move it might make on shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. [1988 - Operation Praying Mantis] ☠️

Full remarks by SECDEF Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine on the removal of Iran's nuclear facilities via Operation Midnight Hammer.

Iran orders closure of Strait of Hormuz — putting one-fifth of world’s oil supply at risk... And I will venture a guess at this point that Iran will begin setting mines in the straight, triggering another US response... Saraphinarose

The White House Situation Room at the time of the attack

NBC: The US is preparing for the possibility of an Iranian response in the coming days, with the next 48 hours considered especially critical. According to the sources, it is unclear whether Iran will choose to strike American targets overseas, within U.S. territory or both.

President Trump's address to the Nation....

TRUMP: "The U.S. military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime ... I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success," says @POTUS. "Iran must now make peace."

The President will make an Address to the Nation at 10:00PM ET.