Trump: Military Operation to Eliminate Iran Threat ‘Duty and Burden of a Free People’

The president also addressed Iranians, saying, ‘The rest will be up to you’ but that ‘America is with you.’
Trump: Military Operation to Eliminate Iran Threat ‘Duty and Burden of a Free People’
An NBC News live feed airs a clip from President Donald Trump's Truth Social video announcement in the White House James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, on Feb. 28, 2026. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
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President Donald Trump said in a March 1 video address that the military operation targeting the Iranian regime was the “duty and burden of a free people.”

A joint U.S.–Israel military operation began on the morning of Feb. 28, striking key leaders and compounds of the Iranian regime and killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the second Supreme Leader of Iran’s Islamic regime, whose tenure was characterized by animosity toward the United States.

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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.