Key Highlights
- and eliminate the intolerable threats posed by this sick and sinister regime," he said at an event in the White House East Room.
- Trump said military operations were ahead of schedule, without providing details.
- He said he had projected the US campaign would last four to five weeks, but that it could go longer.
- A central premise of the fight was to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, which Tehran has denied doing, and thwart its long-range ballistic missile program, Trump said.
- "An Iranian regime armed with long-range missiles and nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat to the Middle East, but also to the American people," Trump said.
