Missile force is shrinking daily. Even more importantly, they also don't have the ability to build more.

Soon and very soon, all of Iran's defense companies will be destroyed.

For example, as of two days ago, Iran's entire ballistic missile production capacity, every company that builds every component of those missiles, has been functionally defeated.

Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground. Cowering.

That's what rats do.

They are exercising sheer desperation in the Straits of Hormuz.

We are dealing with it, dont need to worry about it.

We know the new so-called not-so-supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured.

He put out a statement yesterday, a weak one, actually, but there was no voice and there was no video. It was a written statement. He called for unity.

Apparently, killing tens of thousands of protesters is his kind of unity.

Iran has plenty of cameras and voice recorders. Why a written statement? I think you know why.

His father is dead. He's scared. He's injured. He's on the run, and he lacks legitimacy. It's a mess for them.

Who's in charge? Iran may not even know.

With every passing hour, we know, and we know they know, that the military capabilities of their evil regime are crumbling.

They can barely communicate, let alone coordinate. They're confused, and we know it.

Our response? We will keep pressing, we will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

Fake news from CNN: reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war’s impact on the Strait of Hormuz are ridiculous.

For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do — try to hold the strait hostage.

Does CNN think we didn’t consider that? It’s a fundamentally unserious report.

The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

Today will be yet again the highest volume of strikes that America has put over the skies of Iran and Tehran.

We know who the good guys are here.

The American people do too.

I serve God, the troops, the country, the Constitution, and the President of the United States and answer only to those, all in service of victory on the battlefield and the military objectives that we've laid out from day one:

Defeat the missiles, missile launchers, and defense industrial base, which I laid out today. Defeat the Navy.

I also want to address the tragic loss of our KC-135 refueling aircraft yesterday.

The incident occurred over friendly territory in western Iraq while the crew was on a combat mission, and again, was not the result, as CENTCOM has said, was not the result of hostile or friendly fire.

We're still treating this as an active rescue and recovery operation.

As CENTCOM announced this morning, four airmen have been recovered, and the Air Force and U.S. Central Command will provide updates as information becomes available.

Please keep these brave airmen, their families, friends, and units in your thoughts in the coming hours and days.

We have made it a priority to target Iran’s mine-laying capabilities, including their mine layers, naval bases, and depots, in addition to the missiles that could threaten traffic through the straits.

We continue to make progress on the [Iranian] industrial base to include factories, weapons, warehouses that are stored and we will continue to do so in the coming days, especially today.

For the third time today I’ll mention that today will be our busiest day.

We've said from the beginning, deny Iran nuclear weapons as a core mission. We retain options across the spectrum to ensure that they never do.

This mission actually couldn't have been possible without Midnight Hammer, without what those B-2s did going across and obliterating those facilities. That set the condition for the opportunity to do what we're doing now.

I will say we have a range of options, up to and including Iran, deciding that they will give those up, which of course we would welcome.

I would never tell this group or the world what we're willing to do or how far we're willing to go. But we have options.

We don't target civilians. Iran does.

We will investigate, and we will get to the truth, and we will share it when we have it.

Based on the report I read this morning at 0600, only 1 percent of the munitions we are using today are standoff munitions.

The rest are over-the-top.

There’s this whole idea that the war is widening. That’s what the press wants to make it look like—like it’s widening and chaotic.

But no. We’re actually closing in on, taking hold of, and controlling what objectives we want to achieve and how we want to achieve them.

I mean foolish political leaders and foolish military leaders of the past will hang an exact deadline on it.

Maybe you meet the deadline, but if you don't, you fail... we know exactly what we're shaping and why.

The Strait of Hormuz is something we've paid attention to from the beginning, and the American people can rest assured we will ensure that our interests are advanced.