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Trump Gives an Operation Epic Fury Update, Mar. 1, 2026

March 1, 2026 · The White House · 0:06:01

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What happened

President Donald Trump delivered a recorded update on March 1, 2026, on the first 36 hours of Operation Epic Fury, which he described as “one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives the world has ever seen.” He said the United States and its partners had hit hundreds of targets in Iran, including Revolutionary Guard facilities and Iranian air defense systems, and that nine ships had just been knocked out, along with Iran’s naval headquarters, “all in a matter of literally minutes,” as he stated it.

The President announced that Iran’s Supreme Leader was dead — a man he said had “the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands” — that the entire Iranian military command was gone, and that many Iranian personnel were seeking to surrender in exchange for immunity, “calling by the thousands,” as he put it. He relayed CENTCOM’s news that three U.S. service members had been killed in action, grieved for them as “true American patriots,” and warned that “there will likely be more before it ends.”

He renewed the operation’s core demand and offer: the Revolutionary Guard, the military, and the police should lay down their arms and receive full immunity, “or face certain death,” and he called on the Iranian people to “seize this moment to be brave, be bold, be heroic, and take back your country,” saying America would be there to help.

Why it matters

This is the President’s first full update after his launch address the day before — the moment the administration announced the Supreme Leader’s death and set the surrender-and-immunity terms that its later war updates repeated. It is recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub.

Scoreboard watch

The figures as stated by the President in this update — hundreds of targets, nine ships, the Supreme Leader and the full military command killed, and three U.S. service members lost — are recorded here as candidate items for the weekly scoreboard. The scoreboard entry itself remains review-gated.

Sources: The White House, “Operation Epic Fury Update, President Donald J. Trump,” The White House, March 1, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the President in the update.