We have changed the face of the Middle East in favor of Israel, dramatically, and will continue to do so, because we are the fighting side.

With the help of God, we will be the side that wins.

Before Operation Epic Fury, the Iranian air force would fly 30–100 flights per day; today, that number is zero.

Iran now has zero submarine vessels.

97% of Iran's once massive inventory of more than 5,000 naval mines has also been targeted and destroyed.

Ayatollah Allah Khamenei.

President Trump's maximum pressure and the leverage created by the success of Operation Epic Fury led to the Iranian regime asking for, and ultimately agreeing to, a ceasefire proposal with the United States.

Iran could no longer tolerate being bombed or taking the gamble of what was to come following President Trump's 8 p.m. deadline last night.

The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unserious and completely unacceptable. It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team.

Many outlets have falsely reported that this plan was acceptable to the United States. That is not true. With the president’s deadline fast approaching and the U.S. military decimating Iran with each passing hour, the regime acknowledged reality to the negotiating team.

They then put forward a more reasonable, entirely different, and condensed plan. President Trump and his team determined that this new, modified plan was a workable basis for negotiations, to be aligned with our own 15-point proposal.

The president’s red lines — namely, the end of Iranian enrichment in Iran — have not changed. The idea that President Trump would ever accept an Iranian wish list as a deal is completely absurd.

These extraordinarily sensitive and complex negotiations will take place behind closed doors over the course of the next two weeks.

I would strongly advise the media against running with narratives that have no basis in fact.

What Iran says publicly or feeds to all of you in the press is much different than what they communicate to the United States, the President, and his team privately.

With respect to the initial reporting from Iranian state media, the president was made aware of those reports before I came to the podium. That position is completely unacceptable.

Again, this is a case where what they are saying publicly differs from what they are saying privately.

We have seen an uptick in traffic in the Strait today, and I will reiterate the president’s expectation and demand that the Strait of Hormuz be reopened immediately, quickly, and safely. That is his expectation.

It has been relayed to him privately that what is being reported publicly is false.

It was the Iranians that backed down, not Trump.

Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire; that has been relayed to all parties involved in the ceasefire.

President Trump is dispatching his negotiating team, led by the Vice President of the United States, JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Mr. Kushner, to Islamabad for talks this weekend.

The first round of those talks will take place on Saturday morning, local time, and we look forward to those in-person meetings.

The insinuation by anyone in this room that Iran somehow has the moral high ground over the United States is insulting, considering the atrocities they have committed against our people and our military over the past five decades.

I have a direct quote from the President of the United States on NATO: They were tested, and they failed.

We set out for Operation Roaring Lion to severely damage the Iranian terror regime and remove existential threats to Israel over time.

We significantly struck all of its systems and capabilities, eliminated its leadership, damaged its command and control systems, eliminated many of its commanders, and severely hit its military industries, ballistic missile array, economic targets, and nuclear targets.