President Donald Trump delivered brief remarks from the White House late Saturday after the US military carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

Here is what Trump said in full:

"A short time ago the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan.

"Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise.

"Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.

"Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.

"Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.

"Iran, the........

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