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>>179873• Secretary Rubio (March 30): “This is about very specific objectives. The President laid them out on the first night of the operation… Here they are — you should write them down. Number one, the destruction of their air force. Number two, the destruction of their navy. Number three, the severe diminishing of their missile launching capability. And number four, the destruction of their factories so they can’t make more missiles and more drones to threaten us in the future. All of this so that they can never hide behind it to acquire a nuclear weapon. That was our objective from the beginning; that remains our objective now.”
• Press Secretary Leavitt (March 30): “As I’ve said repeatedly and as the President has laid out, the objectives of Operation Epic Fury are as follows: destroying the Iranian navy, destroying their ballistic missiles, dismantling their defense industrial infrastructure that produces those weapons that have long threatened the United States and our allies, and then, of course, preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon.”
• Secretary Hegseth (March 31): “Our core objectives from this podium, from day one — from me, from the Chairman, from the President, from the Vice President, from Secretary Rubio, and others — have been clear. Defense missile production and missile programs, so their entire missile program, defense industrial base, and production ability to build, and navy and power projection… And then of course, wrapping it all is Iran’s never going to have a nuclear weapon.”
• Secretary Rubio (March 31): “We were going to destroy their air force; we have largely done that. We were going to destroy their navy, which we have largely achieved that. We were going to destroy a significant percentage of their missile launches; we are well on our way to achieving that. And we were going to wipe out their defense industrial base… We are on our way to doing that. Those were our four objectives because those were the four things they were going to hide behind to then develop a nuclear weapon.”
• Admiral Cooper (March 31): “Now in our fifth week of the campaign, it is my operational assessment that we are making undeniable progress in eliminating Iran’s ability to project power in meaningful ways outside of its borders. We don’t see their navy sailing, we don’t see their aircraft flying, and their air defense and missile defense systems have largely been destroyed.”
Distributed on April 1st, 2026.
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