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19 Jun 2026, 22:12

Two sections related to Iran from Trump's interview today

Full text of these sections:
https://telegra.ph/trump-06-19

Some sentences from the same text:
Trump: And I killed the Ayatollah. There was also a Revolutionary Guard official. And unfortunately, I seriously harmed another Ayatollah. Let me tell you, I didn't meet him, I didn't talk to him, but others were talking about him. He has a special courage because he has been severely harmed.

Despite all this, you can't say forget it. I destroyed their army. I don't want that to be overlooked.

For those who say maybe I didn't go hard enough, I have to say I destroyed their army. I took out their biggest bridge because they were late to a meeting. They said that wasn't a very nice thing to do. I said the George Washington Bridge? I destroyed it in three minutes. I hit Khark, everything, except one thing. I said don't touch the pipes because I don't want to harm the world economy.

So I think we were very tough. Don't listen to those who say it could have been tougher. Their entire army is gone.

Interviewer: How is regime change when Khamenei is still younger and many of the Revolutionary Guard officials are still there?

Because they are different people. The younger Khamenei is different from his father. There are people who are much less radical than the previous two groups; and I knew both of the previous groups.
But think about this: all of them are gone. Then they say why didn't you go harder? The only way I could have gone harder is if I had come in two or three weeks later and bombed them heavily. But what does that get us? The Strait of Hormuz wouldn't remain open. Suppose I did that. Suppose I decided to do that. Right now, our stock market is doing incredibly well. Oil prices are falling. Oil prices are almost where they were before I started. The big difference is that Iran will never have nuclear weapons. They will never have nuclear weapons, clear? It's very clear and simple.

Do you know that in the past two months, I was taking many ships out of there and no one knew? Do you know why they didn't know? Because we took out their radar. We hit all their defensive equipment. They were unable to see. Last week, one night we had 25 ships, one night 22 ships, one night 19 ships, one night 21 ships. Every night, all these ships were going out.

Iranians are very smart people. They have a kind of primitive genius, but they are smart. I mean, I had to stop them because if they had nuclear weapons, they would use them. Would you want to see that? Let them blow up a few cities somewhere? For example, they would blow up Israel.

If it weren't for me, Israel wouldn't exist today. Because I canceled Barack Hussein Obama's deal, the JCPOA; a deal that was a pathway to nuclear weapons. They had reached that five years ago. In my opinion, they would have used it in the first week. Israel would no longer be with us. If I hadn't done that, Israel would have been gone years ago.

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