America hopes to have complete control over Iranian skies in the coming hours.

‘Complete and absolute dominance over Iranian airspace’

He added, “We hope to achieve complete and total dominance of Iranian airspace in the coming hours, thereby continuing to achieve these noble and long-desired objectives for our brave warriors.” Iran has been carrying out attacks against its allies in the Middle East, especially the Gulf countries, by targeting US assets and defence infrastructure.

‘Trump doesn’t bluff.’

While assuring the US of resounding success in the war, Leavitt defended Trump, saying he preferred attacks “backed by the world’s most powerful warriors” over diplomacy. He said, “Terrorists bet that President Trump would be like many of his predecessors, that he would just talk and that he would refuse to enforce his clear red lines, but that has proven to be a catastrophic error in judgement.” He said. “When President Trump makes a threat—and I have repeated that threat many times—’President Trump does not cheat,” he said from this stage last year while addressing all of you.

‘Intend to participate in the dignified transfer of slain American soldiers’

Referring to the deaths of six US servicemen in Iranian attacks on Kuwait’s Shoaiba port, Leavitt said he was ready for a dignified transfer of the bodies. “President Trump intends to attend the honourable transfer of these American heroes and stand in grief with their families,” Leavitt said. Additionally, he said the Pentagon is still working to plan a dignified transfer, which is the official movement to send the remains of fallen American soldiers back to the United States at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

‘Iran refuses to say yes to peace.’

Additionally, while defending Trump in the biggest diplomatic stakes, Levitt criticised Iran for needing “nuclear weapons.” Levitt stated, “Iran’s refusal to embrace peace demonstrates their primary focus on developing a nuclear weapon to pose a threat to the United States.” “Iran rejected the path to peace because the terrorists in charge of this regime wanted to build nuclear weapons to use against Americans and our allies,” Levitt said. It should be noted that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S.-Israeli strike, had denied that Tehran was building the bomb and reiterated that weapons of mass destruction are prohibited under Islam.

‘Armed forces don’t do anything like this’: White House on killing of students in southern Iran

When asked about the strike on a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran, Levitt blamed propaganda; however, he did not rule it out.

As journalists questioned whether the US was behind the attack, which Iranian state media said killed more than 100 people in Minab, Levitt said, “Not that we know about it.”

Levitt said the US is striking at the “rogue Iranian regime”, which “uses propaganda quite effectively”, and unfortunately, many in this room have fallen for that propaganda.

“So, I would caution you against blaming the United States for targeting civilians, as these armed forces do not engage in such actions,” Levitt stated.