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• Admiral Cooper (March 21): “U.S. forces continue to take bold action and remain on plan to eliminate Iran’s ability to project meaningful power outside of its borders… Iran has lost significant combat capability over the last three weeks. We are taking out thousands of Iranian missiles, advanced attack drones, and all of Iran’s navy… Their navy is not sailing, their tactical fighters are not flying, and they’ve lost the ability to launch missiles and drones at the high rates seen at the beginning of the conflict.”
• Vice President Vance (March 26): “The Iranian conventional military is effectively destroyed. They don’t have a navy. They don’t have the ability to hit us like they could have even a few weeks ago… The most important American national security objective that exists for any Administration at any time is you don’t want the worst people in the world to have a nuclear weapon. That’s why the President is doing this.”
• Secretary Hegseth (March 26): “Operation Epic Fury is not an endless war. It’s a decisive campaign with clear objectives to destroy Iran’s offensive military capabilities and ensure they never obtain a nuclear weapon… Our objectives are clear: no nukes, no navy, and a complete dismantling of their missile program and defense industrial base.”
• Secretary Rubio (March 26): “[President Trump] defined very clearly on the first night of this operation what the goal was. We were going to destroy Iran’s navy, and that is happening… We were going to destroy their missile launching capabilities. We’re well on our way to achieving that goal. We were going to destroy the factory so they couldn’t make more missiles and more drones, and that is moving forward. Every single objective the president clearly laid out on the first night of this operation is being effectuated.”
• Vice President Vance (March 28): “That was fundamentally the President’s goal. He said, ‘Look, this country, they’re threatening us in all these ways. They’re still trying to build a nuclear weapon. We need to neuter them for a very, very long time,’ and that’s the purpose.”
• Secretary Rubio (March 30): “We’ve destroyed their navy. We’ve destroyed their air force. We are well on our way to destroying the majority of their arms factories. And we are well on our way to significantly degrading their missile launchers. When those objectives are achieved, we will have achieved the purpose of this operation.”
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