US Military Operation Against Iran

The States conducted this operation with a very clear goal in mind.

I haven't got a chance to see a lot of reporting.

I don't understand what the confusion is.

Let me explain it to you, and I'll do it once again as clearly as

possible.

Perhaps you'll report it that way.

The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of

Iran's

short-range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their navy,

particularly to naval assets. That is what it is focused on doing right now,

and

it's doing quite successfully. I'll leave it to the Pentagon

and the Department of

War to discuss the tactics behind that and the progress that's being made.

That is the clear objective of this mission.

The second question I've been asked is: Why now? Well,

there's two reasons why now.

The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by

anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to

respond and respond against the United States.

The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.

It was automatic, and in fact, it beared to be true because in fact, the,

within an hour of, of the initial attack on the co-

on the leadership

compound, the, uh, missile forces in the south

and in the north,

for that matter, had already been activated to launch.

In fact, uh, th- those had already been pre-positioned.

The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood

and waited for that

attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much

hi- higher casualties. And so the president made the very wise

decision.

He-- we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces,

and we knew

that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks,

we

would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.

And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that

and didn't

act.