00:00We are not counting on Europe, but they need the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do.
00:06And might want to start doing less talking and having less fancy conferences in Europe when you get in a
00:13boat.
00:27Well, good morning.
00:28And unlike the endless wars of the past that dragged on for years and for decades with little to show
00:35for it, Operation Epic Fury has delivered a decisive military result in just weeks.
00:42Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, as the president has pointed out, all took years, decades.
00:50Vague missions, shifting sands, little to show for it.
00:54But Operation Epic Fury has been laser focused from the very start, as I've said to all of you.
01:01Clear mission objectives and ultimately Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
01:06It's a bold and dangerous mission, a gift to the world, historic, courtesy of a bold and historic president.
01:18That mission continues today, in this new phase, as Iran has an important choice, a chance to make a deal,
01:25a good deal, a wise deal.
01:30As part of that effort, the United States has imposed an ironclad blockade that grows more powerful by the day.
01:37From the Gulf of Oman to the open oceans, our Navy is enforcing this blockade without hesitation or apology.
01:46Now, as usual, there's a lot of false information out there.
01:50I'll say this.
01:51Every ship, every ship that the U.S. believes meets our criteria, either Iranian ships or to and from Iranian
02:00ports, has been turned around.
02:02As of this morning, 34 total.
02:06Non-Iranian vessels are allowed to transit, and many have, including overnight.
02:13Not only is the blockade growing, in fact, a second aircraft carrier will join the blockade in just a few
02:21days, but this growing blockade is also gone global.
02:26Just this week, we seized two Iranian Dark Fleet ships in the Indo-Pacific region that had left Iranian ports
02:34before the blockade went into effect.
02:37They thought they'd made it out just in time.
02:39They did not.
02:41We seized their sanctioned ships, and we will seize more.
02:46Our blockade is growing and going global.
02:51America's military is unmatched, projecting power, denying passage to adversaries, and protecting our interest at the time and place of
03:00our choosing.
03:01No one sails from the Strait of Hormuz to anywhere in the world without the permission of the United States
03:07Navy.
03:08To the regime in Tehran, the blockade is tightening by the hour.
03:12We are in control.
03:14Nothing in.
03:15Nothing out.
03:18Iran's battered military, the IRGC specifically, has been reduced to a gang of pirates with a flag.
03:26They cloak their aggression in slogans, but the world now sees them for what they are, criminals on the high
03:32seas.
03:33They don't control anything.
03:36They're acting like pirates, acting like terrorists.
03:39They're the ones who lay indiscriminate minds, who shoot at random ships, who killed 45,000 of their own people,
03:50innocent protesters in the course of weeks.
03:53Their own people.
03:55They are the bad actors.
03:58The vessels that the Iranians seized in recent days, a couple of them, they're not American ships.
04:03They're not Israeli ships.
04:06They're just random ships that drove, where they drove their little speedboats up to and shot at those ships with
04:13AK-47s.
04:14Anyone with a speedboat, a gun, and the wrong intentions can do that.
04:20They know that we, the United States of America, control the flow of global shipping, and we know that they
04:27know.
04:28Their real navy is at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf.
04:33It's worth saying again, for 47 years, Iran has been at war with America, killing our citizens, our soldiers, and
04:42our allies, while previous administrations looked the other way.
04:46The real endless war is the war that Iran has waged on us for 47 years.
04:53President Trump is the only president with the guts and moral clarity to finally do something about it.
04:59I see it every day behind closed doors.
05:03President Trump's fortitude is unshakable, and his mission is crystal clear.
05:08President Trump said it again yesterday.
05:11We have all the time in the world, and we're not anxious for a deal.
05:17And I hear him say it every day in private as well.
05:22Iran knows that they still have an open window to choose wisely, as we said previously, choose wisely at the
05:28negotiating table.
05:29All they have to do is abandon a nuclear weapon in meaningful and verifiable ways, or instead they can watch
05:36their regime's fragile economic state collapse under the unrelenting pressure of American power.
05:41A blockade as long as it takes, whatever President Trump decides.
05:49Because the bottom line remains the bottom line.
05:53Iran will never get a nuclear bomb.
05:54The choice is theirs, but with this blockade, the clock is not on their side.
06:01Moreover, President Trump has authorized the United States Navy to destroy any Iranian fast boats that attempt to put mines
06:09in the water or disrupt passage through the Strait of Hormuz to shoot and kill.
06:14Our commanders have clear rules of engagement.
06:17If Iran is putting mines in the water or otherwise threatening American commercial shipping or American forces, we will shoot
06:24to destroy.
06:25No hesitation.
06:26Just like the drug boats in the Caribbean.
06:30It's also worth saying this should not be America's fight alone.
06:36We barely use the Strait of Hormuz as a country.
06:40Our energy doesn't flow through there.
06:42And we have plenty of energy.
06:45Just look at the new global Congo line headed to Texas.
06:50A beautiful picture.
06:52Europe and Asia have benefited from our protection for decades.
06:57But the time for free riding is over.
07:01America and the free world deserve allies who are capable, who are loyal,
07:06and who understand that being an ally is not a one-way street.
07:10It's a two-way street.
07:12We are not counting on Europe, but they need the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do
07:19and might want to start doing less talking and having less fancy conferences in Europe and get in a boat.
07:27This is much more their fight than ours.
07:31On this core mission, America's will is unshakable.
07:34Our capabilities unmatched.
07:36Our blockade is only growing and going global.
07:45Iran has a historic chance to make a serious deal, and the ball is in their court.
07:54Either way, the War Department stands ready for what comes next, locked and loaded.
08:01May God continue to bless our warriors each and every day, and on each and every mission.
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