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Karoline Leavitt: “Operation Epic Fury... destroy the regime's deadly ballistic…”

Featuring: Karoline Leavitt, Republican | White House Press Secretary | National

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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Mar. 4, 2026

Published | Video Starts at 22:01

President Trump is holding these monsters accountable and permanently extinguishing their nuclear ambitions. Future generations of Americans will look to this moment as the moment where the specter of a nuclear … Operation Epic Fury... destroy the regime's deadly ballistic missiles and completely raze their missile industry to the ground. … navy. And so far we have destroyed more than 20 Iranian ships, including their top submarine last night using a torpedo. (22:01–22:20)

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