Trump on the goals of the operation against Iran:

What we are doing now is much bigger than what we were doing before. Before, we were only trying to stop the acquisition of a specific capability. But now we want to end this matter forever. These two things are different. What we are doing now is to eliminate any possibility of Iran obtaining a nuclear missile. If you look, after about a week and a half to two weeks since the start of the war, we probably stopped their progress. Of course, I don’t even want to say "probably".