A drone fell at the SAMREF refinery, and damage assessment is underway.

6 teams are currently dealing with fires at two refineries in the ports of Al-Ahmadi and Abdullah.

We warn the enemy that they have committed a major mistake by targeting the energy infrastructure in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the response to this has already begun and is not yet over.

If this is repeated, future attacks will target the energy infrastructure of the enemy and its allies and will continue until complete destruction, and our response will be far more severe than tonight's attacks.

A message to our brothers in Hezbollah: We are certain that you will complete the mission.

The assassination of Iranian leaders and civilians is never acceptable.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates must close the American bases in these countries.

These forces can never provide security.

We condemn the attacks that targeted us, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, and Jordan, and we consider them a violation of sovereignty and the principles of the United Nations Charter.

We emphasize the necessity of respecting the freedom of navigation and international law, as these attacks threaten maritime security and affect global trade and energy security.

My 13-year-old son came into my office last night while I was editing these remarks. He asked about the war—and the families I met at Dover.

I looked at him and said: they died for you, son—so that your generation doesn’t have to deal with a nuclear Iran.

The last jobs anyone in the world wants right now: senior leader for the IRGC or Basij—temp jobs, all of them.

The media here—not all of it, but much of it—wants you to think that just 19 days into this conflict, we’re somehow heading toward an endless abyss, a forever war, or a quagmire.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

We’re now flying further east and penetrating deeper into Iranian airspace to hunt and destroy one-way attack systems.

The A-10 Warthog is now engaged across the southern flank, targeting fast attack watercraft in the Strait of Hormuz.

In addition, AH-64 Apaches have joined the fight on the southern flank, continuing operations alongside allies—including missions to counter one-way attack drones.

Name the Islamist enemy—whether Sunni or Shia—because this is a Shia regime, but Iran has been willing to harbor both.

As long as a group is willing to try to kill Americans, the enemy of their enemy has been their friend in the Islamist world.

So Iran—whether in Iraq, Afghanistan, or elsewhere around the world—has been targeting Americans.

And what President Trump will not tolerate is a regime of that nature—one moving closer and closer to nuclear capability.