Trump Defends US Strikes on Iran, Says Tehran’s Military Capabilities Have Been Crippled

Washington, June 2026 : US President Donald Trump strongly defended his administration’s recent military action against Iran, claiming that the strikes had severely weakened Tehran’s military capabilities and ensured that the country would never acquire a nuclear weapon.

Addressing the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority conference on Friday, Trump described the latest agreement with Iran as a landmark achievement and said his administration had succeeded where previous US presidents had failed.

“Last week, we signed a historic agreement to accomplish what no president has ever been able to accomplish before — that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon,” Trump told the gathering.

The President asserted that the military campaign had dramatically degraded Iran’s conventional military strength, claiming its naval, air and air defence capabilities had been virtually wiped out.

“Iran today has no Navy, no Air Force, no anti-aircraft capability, no radar, virtually no manufacturing,” Trump said.

He also outlined what he described as the scale of the damage inflicted on Iran’s missile and drone infrastructure.

“Their drone capacity has been cut by 82 per cent. Their missile capacity has been cut by 80 per cent. Their rocket launchers have been cut by 90 per cent,” he claimed, without providing supporting evidence for the figures.

Trump further alleged that Iran’s military leadership had suffered heavy losses during the conflict.

“Their leadership has been killed a first time, and their leadership has been killed a second time. And nobody wants to be the leader of Iran anymore,” he said.

According to Trump, the sustained military pressure had forced Tehran to seek renewed engagement with Washington.

“They’re dying to make a deal. They’re giving us a lot,” he said, adding that preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons remained one of his administration’s highest priorities.

“We’ve got to stop them from having a nuclear weapon,” Trump said. “Because you want to see problems? Let a crazy country have a nuclear weapon, and you’ll see problems like you’ve never seen before.”

The President also revisited one of the defining military decisions of his first term — the 2020 killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. Trump said Soleimani had been responsible for supplying roadside bombs that caused devastating injuries to American troops deployed in the Middle East.

“When you see a young man or woman walking around without legs or without arms or a face that was obliterated, it happened from the roadside bomb that was created — the creation of General Soleimani, who I killed in my first term,” Trump said.

He described Soleimani’s killing as “one of the biggest things ever to happen in the Middle East.”

While insisting that Iran’s military capabilities had been significantly reduced, Trump acknowledged that the country still retained some ability to launch attacks.

Referring to a recent incident near the Strait of Hormuz, he claimed Iran had launched four drones targeting commercial shipping.

“They can still shoot,” Trump said. “You know, they shot a drone yesterday at a big ship going into the Hormuz Strait. They shot four of them, we knocked down three of them.”

According to Trump, one of the drones struck a commercial vessel and caused damage, though he did not provide additional details.

“But you can’t do that stuff,” he said.

The President’s remarks came during a wide-ranging address covering issues including religion, immigration, election reform, the economy and national security. Throughout the speech, Trump stressed that his administration would continue using American military strength whenever necessary to protect national interests.

“We have the strongest military in the world,” Trump said. “We’re once again using it to defend America’s interests and American values.”

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