We're also setting up, as we speak, a purely defensive mission. This is a support mission, the purpose of which is to work with other European and indeed non-European states.

The purpose is to provide escorts for container ships to gradually reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which is, of course, a passage for international trade but also a passage for oil and gas, which should be able to come out of the region.

This will all take place in good order, and we've started discussing this. This is a peaceful defensive mission; it's a support mission, but indeed it is essential for our economies and indeed for the global economy at large.

Hezbollah should stop all attack from Lebanese soil because it is threatening all Lebanese nationals.

Israel should also stop its military operations and strikes against Lebanon.

Unconditional surrender means we're fighting to win. It means we set the terms.

We'll know when they're not capable of fighting.

Whether they know it or not, they will be combat ineffective. They will surrender.

There's a reason we changed our name from the Department of Defense to the Department of War.

Not because we seek war. Not because we want more war.

Frankly, we want peace.

If war is necessary, we're going to fight to win.

President Trump is right when he says we obliterated their nuclear program. He’s right. We did. We dropped those bombs exactly where they needed to be, set them back.

But that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped their pursuit.

"By a decisive vote, the Assembly of ​Experts appointed Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the third Leader of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran," the ​assembly said in a statement.

“One righteous person after another.”