The Middle East has close economic relations with the Russian Federation and has influence.

If they give a signal to Russia regarding a ceasefire, for example, for some time—a month, a term of two months—we can then send and protect the civilian population, send our specialists.

It is no coincidence that Moscow and the regime in Iran were so close. What unites them is their lack of respect for people.

And all of us in Europe and around the world must be effective in defending against such regimes; we must be effective so that life prevails.

In the past, we have repeatedly warned regional countries that if America enters a war with us, it cannot remain limited to just us and America; it will involve the whole region.

Not because we want to regionalize it, but because American bases and facilities are spread across our region.

From our point of view, those bases are legitimate targets, because they belong to the country attacking us, even if they claim they are not being used against Iran.

America is targeting parts of our country every day: hospitals and schools. More than 160 innocent schoolgirls were killed by American bombs and missiles.

And we’re told we shouldn’t strike their regional bases just because a specific base didn’t participate?

What kind of talk is this?

From our perspective, the war is not a regional one. It is a war between Iran and America that has unfortunately spread throughout the region.

We have no war with the countries in the region, except for the Zionist regime.

But unfortunately, American forces are spread across different countries in the region, and we are forced to counter them.

This confrontation of ours is with America.

Everybody watch Sean Hannity tonight at 9 P.M. Bibi Netanyahu will be interviewed!

They are producing, by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month.

Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a month.

That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don’t make geopolitical decisions.

They make decisions on the basis of theology — their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one.

This operation needed to happen because Iran, in about a year or a year and a half, would have crossed the line of immunity, meaning they would have had so many short-range missiles and so many drones that no one could have done anything about it.

The objectives of this operation are to destroy their ballistic missile capability and make sure they can't rebuild it, and make sure that they can't hide behind that to have a nuclear program.

Six U.S. service members have been killed in action.

U.S. forces recently recovered the remains of two previously unaccounted for service members from a facility that was struck during Iran's initial attacks in the region.

The United States would not deliberately target a school.

We would have no interest and, frankly, no incentive to target civilian infrastructure.