Trump celebrates success of June war with Iran in Knesset speech

US President Donald Trump says that all across the Middle East, “the forces of chaos, terror, and ruin that have plagued the region for decades now stand weakened, isolated, and totally defeated.”

“A new coalition of proud and responsible nations is emerging,” he says. “The enemies of all civilization are in retreat.”

He praises the skill and bravery of the IDF in the 12-day air war with Iran in June, saying that IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir “looks like he’s from central casting.”

“Great job,” he says. “My people loved working with you. They worked so well together.”

He celebrates the fact that so many Iranian operatives and top scientists “have been extinguished from this earth.”

Trump talks about the “beautiful B-2 bombers” that struck Iran in the US attack on the country’s nuclear facilities. “I thought they were pretty planes, I had no idea they could do what they did,” he says.

He says that together, Israel and the US “stopped the number-one state sponsor of terror from obtaining the world’s most dangerous weapons.”

Iran would’ve had the nuclear weapons in two months or less if they hadn’t struck its facilities, says Trump, and the Middle Eastern countries who back the Gaza ceasefire deal wouldn’t have done so in the face of a nuclear Iran. “We took a big cloud off the Middle East, and off of Israel,” says Trump.

“This was our last shot,” he says. “And it was an honor to help.”