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2 Sept 2026, 18:55

Trump's Press Conference
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🔺 Reporter: Trump, you wrote today on Truth Social: "When will the people of Iran rise up and fight?" Well, if that's what you want, are you sending the CIA to arm the Iranians?

🔻 Trump: Well, I don't want to say this to you, Peter. I would love to tell you, but it's not appropriate to say. But I... I mean, I understand their difficult situation. Right now, they are being shot at.
You know, these gentlemen here are sitting in luxury and seeing things, but over there, the situation is not so comfortable and prosperous. Until three months ago, 52,000 protesters had been killed. Can you imagine? And now I hear that this number has probably increased by another 20 to 25 thousand. Nearly 65,000 protesters have been killed.

So when I ask that question, I kind of know the answer. The only answer is that they are being shot at. The regime is getting weaker and weaker every day, and at some point, they won't be able to shoot so easily because I think the people will no longer tolerate it.

But I raised that question because, you know, it's time. But most... most people cannot kill their own people like that. Most people try to act rationally, they talk, and then the government might fall. In Iran, they kill people. When they come out to protest, they are killed. They shoot them right between the eyes.

They have two methods: machine guns and snipers, and they use both; sometimes machine guns and sometimes snipers. They prefer snipers more because it only takes a crowd of 200,000, and one person falls right here with a bullet between their eyes, and three snipers do this; and watching it is horrifying. It's really horrifying.
That's why this doesn't happen. And who can blame them? Who can blame them? But the regime is getting weaker every day.

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We are controlling the Strait of Hormuz. We are taking out many ships every day that carry millions of barrels of oil. In most cases, we do this without any problems. Occasionally, they send a drone, and we shoot it down.

But we have control; very strong control. They were trying to rebuild radar systems and a missile system and a system to drop mines. You know, we destroyed all the mines in the Strait of Hormuz. They were trying to build a missile that drops mines. Who does that? Have you ever built a missile that drops mines? I've never heard of such a thing, but that's what they were doing.

They were building it. It was almost finished, so we destroyed it. We saw them building it. We see everything they do. They can't move. They can't even go to the bathroom without us seeing. So we saw it. We destroyed it.
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So last night we hit them hard; very hard. They landed a very small blow, but we hit them very hard last night. We destroyed all the new equipment they had been trying to build along the Strait of Hormuz; some defensive and some offensive.

They were trying to see the ships because they can't see the ships. You know, we've destroyed a lot of their ships. They can't see because they don't have radar, because we blew it up, and last night we blew up much more than just their radar.
Last night was a very heavy attack, and we are ready to launch another attack whenever we want.

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Gas was being sold at that price; because we cannot allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
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But the issue is very simple. Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. As soon as it's over, which I don't think will take much longer, I don't know how much longer they can endure, but you know, whatever it is, it doesn't matter.
And the election does not affect me. First of all, I am not a candidate. But my party has a candidate, and I am going to help my party. But I think my party respects the fact that we will not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.

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🔺 Reporter: Mr. President, how serious are you about renaming the Strait of Hormuz to "Trump Strait"? And if you are serious, how would you do it? How would you do it, Mr. President?
🔻 Trump: It just came up like that.

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