Today, inflation in Iran is 70%, and their currency is in total and complete freefall.

Under this president, under President Trump, the U.S. will help our friends; we're going to stand up to rogue regimes like the one in Tehran, and we're going to be unashamed to use our power and our abilities to project military power in the service of our national interest above all else.

Any foreign financial institution or commercial actor that enables Iran sanctions evasion is going to face secondary sanctions exposure and a loss of access to the U.S. financial system.

Our preference is for the Strait of Hormuz to be opened the way it's supposed to be opened, back to the way it was, where anyone can use it, no mines in the water, nobody paying tolls.

That's what we have to get back to, and that's the goal here.

The top people in that government are insane in the brain.

There is no oil blockade on Cuba per se.

The status quo in Cuba is unacceptable, and we will be addressing it—but not today.

There is no problem between the Lebanese government and the Israeli government.

Israel doesn't claim any land in Lebanon belongs to them.

And by and large, I think a peace deal between Lebanon and Israel is eminently achievable and should be.

The primary responsibility for "Project Freedom" is on the United States, because we're the only country that can project power in that part of the world the way we're doing now.

This is a favor to the world because it's their ships that are stranded.

It's their fuel supplies, humanitarian aid, and fertilizer that are stranded.

The operation is over—Epic Fury; we are done with that stage of it.

We're now on to "Project Freedom."

Part of the negotiation process has to be not just the enrichment but what happens to this material that's buried deep somewhere that they still have access to if they ever wanted to dig it out.

That has to be addressed, and that's being addressed in the negotiation.

The world is a victim of Iran.

But the people of Iran are daily victims of the regime...

The Strait of Hormuz does not belong to Iran; they don’t have a right to shut it down.

This cannot be normalized.

Operation Epic Fury is concluded — we achieved the objectives of that operation.

We're not cheering for an additional situation to occur. We would prefer the path of peace.

President Trump would prefer a deal.