Karoline Leavitt: “Killing These Brutal Terrorists Is Good For America And Makes The World Safer”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed reporters at the White House about “misreporting and intellectual dishonesty from the American media” about the war in Iran during a briefing on Wednesday
KAROLINE LEAVITT: There has been a lot of misreporting and intellectual dishonesty from the American media about why President Trump launched this operation. So let me remind you, Operation Midnight Hammer, which took place last June, obliterated Iran’s three major nuclear sites. Yet the Iranian regime remained fully committed to rebuilding its nuclear program. How do we know this? Iran has pursued this path or war despite President Trump dispatching two of his top negotiators to engage in exhaustive, good-faith negotiations. The world knows this president’s preference is peace and diplomacy first. Look no further than the eight additional global conflicts he has ended in the past year as proof. Unfortunately, the terrorist Iranian regime refused to negotiate in good faith. They chose this path of violence and destruction and they are reaping the consequences of that horrible decision. The remine did what they have always done, they lied, they delayed. They tried to string the United States along to buy time to continue building missiles and other deadly weaponry and aggressively pursuing their unacceptable nuclear ambitions. U.S. negotiators offered to lift crippling sanctions and even provide nuclear fuel to Iran at no cost for a civilian nuclear program. They offered U.S. investment support for peaceful nuclear energy development under a mutually agreed framework – in exchange for Iran permanently forfeiting its enrichment capacity. Iran rejected all of it. They refused to say yes to peace. Their refusal made clear their priority was building a nuclear weapon to threaten the United States – the country they have chanted death to for nearly five decades. Let me state this again clearly. Iran rejected that path of peace because the terrorists in charge of this regime wanted to build nuclear weapons to use against Americans and our allies. President Trump made a courageous determination and decision. The path we were on would have led to massive death and destruction at the hands of a nuclear-armed terrorist regime. That path of death, destruction, and threats against America has ended with Operation Epic Fury. The terrorist made a bet that President Trump would be like his predecessors, that he would just talk, and refuse to enforce clear red lines. That has proven to be a catastrophic error. When President Trump makes a threat, he does not bluff. Forty-nine and counting of the most senior Iranian regime leaders, including the Supreme Leader, have been wiped off the face of the earth. Killing these brutal terrorists is good for America and makes the world safer.
