Remarks from a number of American politicians and officials on the recent American strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Vice President JD Vance:
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."
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."
VANCE: "The Iranians are clearly not very good at war. Perhaps they should follow President Trump's lead and give peace a chance."
VP VANCE: "If the Iranians attack us, they're going to be met with overwhelming force ... We did not attack the nation of Iran. We did not attack any civilian targets. We didn't even attack military targets outside of the three nuclear weapons facilities."
VP: "We have to give an incredible amount of gratitude to the troops...They flew thousands of miles away, a 30 hour nonstop flight, they never touched down on the ground & they dropped a 30,000 pound bomb on a target about the size of a washing machine."
JD Vance attempted to assuage the concerns of Americans disillusioned by 25 years of failed “foreign entanglements” in the Middle East by affirming that this time it’ll be different because we don’t have a “dumb president.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
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)
Maria Bartiromo: Do you expect Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz to disrupt oil transportation?Secretary Rubio: "If they do that, it will be another terrible mistake.
It's economic suicide for them if they do it, and we retain options to deal with that."
Secretary of State Rubio: Why does Hamas exist? Because of Iran... Who built the IEDs that maimed and killed American soldiers in Iraq? Iran. They're behind every problem in this region... Imagine those people having a nuclear weapon... That is unacceptable."
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton:
Mustached neocon John Bolton praised Trump’s attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.
“We are on the verge of potentially seeing regime change in Iran.”