Trump also faulted the government in Tehran for the deaths of thousands of protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, although the specific figure he cited - that 32,000 people had been killed - is much higher than most public estimates.
"What is claimed about Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s intercontinental ballistic missile, and the number of people killed in the January unrest is nothing but the repetition of a series of big lies," Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on X on Wednesday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a briefing on Iran hours before the speech for Congress' "Gang of Eight" - composed of the leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives and the two chambers' intelligence committees.
"First and foremost, if they want to do something in Iran - and who the hell knows what it is - they should make it public and discuss it with the public and not keep it in secret. When you do these military operations in secret, it always causes longer wars, tragedy, more expenses and mistake(s)," Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told a press conference shortly before the classified session.
Advisers had urged Trump to focus on the economy, immigration and other domestic policy issues, and he devoted the lion's share of his nearly two-hour-long speech to such topics.
Trump and his fellow Republicans rose to the top of U.S. politics with the passionate support of a political base that embraces his "America First" policies and vow to end an era of "forever wars" like the long conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But opinion polls show the party will struggle to keep control of Congress in November's midterm election.
Polls also show Americans wary of foreign conflicts. A Reuters/Ipsos poll from January showed 69% of Americans agreed with a statement the U.S. should only use its military when facing a direct and imminent threat, while 18% disagreed and the rest weren't sure or didn't answer the question.

Trump ordered strikes on Iran last year, claiming in July that they had "obliterated" the country's nuclear facilities. His aides have claimed more recently that Iran is very close to having the ability to make nuclear bombs.
Trump addressed the issue in Tuesday's speech, saying, "They (Iran's leaders) want to start all over again, and are, at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions."
Trump said he preferred to make peace, listing a range of worldwide conflicts he takes credit for ending, or easing.
"As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must," Trump said.

>>1491737
How will liggerals advocate for austere religious scholars this time?

>>1491737
president of war is peace

>>1491737
Enough with the feminist puppet governments that are all going to fail. Take a hint.

>>1491742
>This is how the warmongers are framing the next republican forever war

Trump is daddy

>>1491742
How was your bar mitzvah?

>>1491742
As a Christian conservative, I respect the austere religious values of Iran and putting woman in their place.

>>1491737
Wow we are bringing democracy to these savages and introducing LGBT principles. All at the low low cost of protecting pedophiles (of which the epstein files are a hoax) and providing a small monthly donation of a few billion taxdollars to israel (this is how we drain the swamp).
I think this is a good deal and we should sacrifice as many american lives as necessary to ensure this is front page news.

>>1491794
>He respects Islam
NGMI.

>>1491796
If Trump is covering for pedos by not prosecuting the files, why did Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's Attorney General never prosecute pedos?

>>1491805
Did they deny the files exist? Also if you wanna throw Garland under the bus too, be my guest. They all gotta pay.

>>1491808
I think Merrick Garland did deny the files existed
Which is why he never had to answer questions about the files like Pam Bondi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8jHpldg94
He testified before congress for 4.5 hours and not one question about Epstein, or his progress on prosecuting pedos in the files

>>1491809
>He testified before congress for 4.5 hours and not one question about Epstein, or his progress on prosecuting pedos in the files
That's on Congress, though to be fair, neither he nor Biden raised the question then tried to shut the book completely after saying how much there was.

>>1491811
Again I don't think that is true.
I think Donald Trump has released more of the Epstein files than Joe Biden did.
We've had multiple waves of document dumps, which we didn't have under the last president.

>>1491805
Yes this. The president who campaigned on releasing the epstein files, is found in the epstein files and is now protecting those in the epstein files has no culpability because muh biden

>>1491813
When you say Donald Trump is found in the epstein files what do you mean?
Were there emails from Donald Trump or to Donald Trump from Jeffrey Epstein?

>>1491796
Nah, we'll just nuke em. Trump isn't going to nation build, he's going to kill most of them then let them figure it out afterward.

>>1491814
I mean I want to win the midterm elections and I think this will help my chances even though it's obfuscating the real Epstein collaborators such as Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, and others.

>>1491813
>because muh biden
It's because it would destroy the United States. Actually and unironically.

>>1491837
that's the same argument nixon used to keep his oval office recordings secret, and it only worked for so long

>>1491838
They're not comparable.
Most people don't realize the implicates of the files we already have, e.g that voting doesn't matter anymore due to the fact that all US politicians are held hostage by an international blackmail scheme. Whatever they're hiding must be worse than that.

>>1491849
you say that but a member of the royal family just got arrested the other day

>>1491837
Good. Maybe the US needs a hard reset

>>1491851
Fucking this. The idea that "oh these people will never be punished" literally is the main thing preventing them from being punished. Don't let their fucking manufactured apathy stop them from facing consequences. We can and will throw these fucks where they belong.

>>1491851
>a member
Anon are you high
It's the entire political class of the western world that's implicated not just one guy
The files also confirmed the existence of blood libel among jewish billionaires. Why the fuck do you think arresting prince andrew is progress in the slightest

>>1491855
it's not every single politician, if that's your argument you're just a shill spreading black propaganda

>>1491855
>blood libel
oh. yeah, you're a shill

>>1491852
Why would you want trump to commence the great reset?
Wouldn't you prefer someone you voted for to flip that switch??

>>1491860
life is more than the memes you've heard of

From the last three hours:
>Saudi Arabia boosts oil output, exports for US attack on Iran contingency
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabia-boosts-oil-output-exports-us-attack-iran-contingency-sources-say-2026-02-25/

>Rubio says Iran poses a “very grave threat” to the United States, is pursuing intercontinental ballistic missiles, and is attempting to develop conventional weapons designed to target America
https://x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2026795545080324332
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2026800968768045323

>US sees evidence Iran is trying to rebuild nuclear program
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/vp-vance-says-us-sees-evidence-iran-is-trying-rebuild-nuclear-weapon-2026-02-25/

>>1491860
Because America is beyond saving if someone like Trump can be openly corrupt without consequence and politicians like Pelosi can do all the insider trading they want without investigation. The entire system needs to be burnt down and rebuilt

>>1491857
No, you're uninformed.
Epstein was having 'jerky' walked to his office and having it cooked up for him at all hours, transporting it in freezer bags across the globe, and having it served to guests for full meals.
You can look through the files yourself if you don't believe me.

>>1491876
no, i'm adequately informed through your posts that you're not worth taking seriously

>>1491877
>not worth taking seriously
The federal government is the primary source you abject fucking retard. They've admitted this was real. And even if the political class didn't individually go on the island, the ones who did know refused to disclose this info to the public for twenty years.

>>1491878
your cherrypicked interpretation doesn't mean shit to me shill anon, i'm more concerned with the parts of the epstein files that don't cater to your magical thinking

>>1491879
You mean the ones that you specifically choose to believe?
People like you are the reason why the Epstein files were so hard to talk about for the last twenty years. You can be shown primary evidence and your only recourse is to say 'well that just doesn't seem likely to me', and then go about your day like your own incredulity is the only thing stopping these things from being real.

>>1491882
>just trust my elders of zion fairy tales and stop looking at the pedophiles!
no

>Iran
>Canada
>Greenland
What would be the most based war for Trump to start?

>>1491898
here's your attention faggot

>>1491898
All of them, really. Hopefully not at the same time. The rest of the world is going to have to square with the fact that they need America, but America does not need them.

>>1491898
Was with Iran only serves only Israel.
Greenland has the population of a small country and mostly white.
Canada is filled with communists and they threatened the US recently. So the choice is obvious.

So Cuba just shot some people on a US boat, is the Iran invasion postponed to posture against Cuba or are they just going to ignore the shootings?

>>1491900
>>1491905
stop talking to yourself esl shill

>America does not need them
Imagine being a third world shill paid by Americans to post this shit
prime comedy

>>1491906
Rubio is already playing it down so seems like they're not in a hurry to move against Cuba yet.

>>1491916
I thought Rubio would salivate over a chance to strike against Cuba lol.

Maybe they'd even forget about this after a week cause that's longer than the attention span of this administration but we'll see.

>>1491918
I haven't seen them deny Cuba's claim that their ship was fired on after informing the boaters they were in Cuban waters, I assume there's video evidence or something equally damning
Maybe they're not dumb enough to immediately start shouting that its okay to fire on law enforcement officials doing their job

>>1491920
I guarantee you it was some absolute fucking retards basically telling Cuban's border patrol to go fuck themselves because they're american and can do whatever they want. The type of shit that it legit would make them look worse to defend than not.

>>1491920
I really doubt that they would care if Cuba had an actually good reason to shoot. Even if the boat was legit trespassing and refused to retreat, Trump and co might still try to spin it as an attack on innocent patriots.
They shot up that Minnesota women and called her a domestic terrorist so I don't put this as below them. I don't even like protestors but they were really trying to spin her as something she wasn't.

>>1491906
Given the lack of saber rattling by trump's goons, all signs point to the people on the boat being US backed agitators that got caught by Cuba's boarder patrol and they thought they could win in a gun fight.

>>1491928
>>1491929

>>1491930
>They were literal fucking terrorists and one of survivors is claiming they were sent from the US to do an armed infiltration
holy shit.

>>1491932
>budget knockoff bay of pigs
assuming the confession isn't fake and gay

>>1491933
Given trump is a neocon on steroids and even tried to undermine the Canadian government by secretly meeting with far right separatists, the Cubans have more credibility than him.

>>1491937
>Trump
>neocon
You're an idiot aren't you?

>>1492003
Why are you aggressively wrong all the time?

>>1492007
I am wrong actually. It appears that neoconservatives are simply anti-communist.
In that vein, most sane, normal, heterosexual people are neoconservative.
I guess I jump to conclusions because neoconservativsm is tied to George Bush Jr. in my mind. Bush Jr. era Republicans being mostly anti-Trump uniparty scumbags in league with Democrats.

>>1492011
If they were anti communist they wouldn't be Russian cocksleeves. Get new talking points

>>1492013
Russia rebelled against Communism and won years ago.
In fact, communism has been destroyed everywhere it's been tried.
Neoconservativism was started by left wingers.
Here's a wikipedia article so you're more familiar with the term you're using:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism
>The term neoconservative was popularized in the United States during 1973 by the socialist leader Michael Harrington,
>The term itself was the product of a rejection among formerly self-identified liberals of what they considered a growing leftward, antimilitaristic turn of the Democratic Party in the 1970s. Neoconservatives perceived an ideological effort to distance the >Democratic Party and American liberalism from the hawkish Cold War liberalism as espoused by former Presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. After the Vietnam War, the anti-communist, internationalist and interventionist roots of this Cold War liberalism among the Left seemed increasingly brittle to the neoconservatives.

You're welcome.

>>1492015
>Russia rebelled against Communism and won years ago.
LOL. becoming a corrupt shilhole with an even worse government model than communism isn't winning, but i guess it's your job to tell obvious lies, isn't it shill. i don't need any history lessons, you're literally not american

>>1492018
>worse
There's nothing worse than communism. Russia was always corrupt and the corruption grew under communism.
Example: they aren't fucking starving to death anymore.
And this in now way excuses anything Russian politically, it's an indictment of communism.
Also you're off the point you were making, which appears to be, "I don't know anything about politics, but you should listen to me", as is usually what the liggerals are trying to tell people.

>>1492021
>There's nothing worse than communism
you'll have to convince the current russian army of that before you convince me, anon

>>1492024
What?

>>1492025
i guess that makes no sense to you, since you argued earlier that russia won when their empire collapsed

>>1491906
Saying that shooting people on a boat is bad would make their boat strikes look worse than they already do.
At this point, I wouldn't go out on a boat anywhere between Georgia and Brazil.

>>1492026
What?

>>1492047
It would make their boat strikes look bad, but at the same time I doubt they'd care.

These are the people who said that Epstein files are a treasure trove of info on criminals waiting to be prosecuted, for years. Then they made a complete 180 and said the files were a hoax. No shame.