U.S. President Donald Trump told the nation in a televised speech on Wednesday (April 1) night that the U.S. military had nearly completed the goals it had set out to accomplish in its war with Iran and that the conflict would soon be ending.

Trump, facing a war-wary American public and sliding approval ratings, said the U.S. had destroyed Iran's navy and air force, and crippled its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

He added that the U.S. would continue to hit targets in the Islamic Republic over the next two to three weeks.

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1. U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP APPROACHING LECTERN

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3. (SOUNDBITE) ( English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air force and their missile program at levels never seen before, and annihilating their defense industrial base. We've done all of it. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran military crush their ability to support terrorist proxies, and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's never been anything like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it. And tonight, I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion."

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5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"And we are going to finish the job and we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close. I want to thank our allies in the Middle East, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain. They've been great. And we will not let them get hurt or fail in any way, shape or form."

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7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. This short term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them and they will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion, economic pain and instability worse than we can ever imagine."

8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done. So it should be easy. And in any event, when this conflict is over, the Strait (of Hormuz) will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much, frankly."

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10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"Thanks to the progress we've made. I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly. Very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders death. They're all dead."

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12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously we have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone. And there's not a thing they could do about it. They have no antiaircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force."

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14. TRUMP ENDING SPEECH