Via CNN:
Describing the decision to launch a “major” military operation against Iran Saturday morning, President Donald Trump said in a video posted to social media that Iran was developing “long-range missiles that can now threaten our very good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon reach the American homeland.”
“They rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore,” he said.
Trump has made the claim that Iran was working on missiles that could reach the US several times in recent days, though sources told CNN that the assertion is not supported by US intelligence. There is no intelligence, sources said, that Iran would soon have a missile capable of hitting the US. However, Iran does have short-range ballistic missiles that could threaten US troops and military bases in the Middle East, the sources said.
In his video address on Saturday, Trump also listed a series of grievances against Iran, including its backing of proxy groups in the region that have threatened US troops and commercial shipping, and its support of Hamas.