트럼프 대통령 이란관련 대국민 담화문 전문

아래는 지난 1일 트럼프 미국 대통령이 이란관련 대국민 담화문 전문입니다. 상단에 한글 번역본이, 하단에는 영문 전문이 있습니다. (번역은 직역입니다)

[트럼프 대통령 이란관련 국민 담화 전문]

친애하는 미국 국민 여러분, 안녕하십니까.

(백악관에서 대국민 담화문을 발표하는 트럼프 대통령. 백악관 인스타그램)

먼저 NASA 팀과 우리의 용감한 우주비행사들이 아르테미스 II 발사를 성공적으로 수행한 것을 축하드립니다. 그것은 정말 대단한 일이었습니다. 이 로켓은 지금까지 어떤 유인 로켓보다 더 먼 거리를 비행하며, 달을 훨씬 지나 그 주위를 돌고, 이전에 한 번도 이루어진 적 없는 거리에서 돌아올 것입니다. 놀랍습니다. 그들은 지금 여정 중이며, 하나님께서 그들을 축복하시길 바랍니다. 이들은 용감한 사람들입니다. 우리는 - 그 네 명의 놀라운 우주비행사들에게 축복이 있기를 바랍니다.

오늘 밤 이 시점에서, 미국 군이 세계 최대 테러 지원 국가인 이란을 겨냥해 '에픽 퓨리 작전'을 시작한 지 정확히 한 달이 지났습니다. 지난 4주 동안 우리 군은 전장에서 신속하고, 결정적이며, 압도적인 승리를 거두었습니다. 거의 아무도 본 적 없는 승리입니다. 오늘 밤, 이란 해군은 사라졌습니다. 그들의 공군은 폐허 상태입니다. 그들의 지도자들 대부분은, 그들이 이끌던 테러 정권과 함께 이제 죽었습니다. 이슬람혁명수비대의 지휘 및 통제는 지금 이 순간에도 파괴되고 있습니다. 미사일과 드론 발사 능력은 극적으로 제한되었습니다. 그리고 그들의 무기, 공장, 로켓 발사대는 산산조각 나고 있습니다. 거의 남아 있지 않습니다.

전쟁 역사상 몇 주 만에 이렇게 명확하고 파괴적인 대규모 손실을 입은 적은 없었습니다. 우리의 적은 패배하고 있으며, 미국은 지난 5년 동안 제 대통령 임기 동안 그래왔듯이 승리하고 있고, 지금은 그 어느 때보다 더 크게 승리하고 있습니다.

현재 상황을 논의하기 전에, 저는 또한 몇 분 만에 베네수엘라를 장악한 우리 군의 탁월한 작전에 대해 감사의 말씀을 전하고 싶습니다. 그 타격은 빠르고, 치명적이며, 강력했고 전 세계적으로 존중받았습니다. 제 첫 임기 동안 군을 재건한 이후, 우리는 세계 어디에도 없는 가장 강력한 군대를 보유하고 있습니다. 그리고 지금 우리는 베네수엘라와 함께 협력하고 있으며, 진정한 의미에서 공동 사업 파트너입니다. 우리는 막대한 양의 석유와 가스 생산 및 판매에서 매우 잘 협력하고 있습니다. 이는 미국 다음으로 세계에서 두 번째로 큰 매장량입니다. 우리는 이제 중동에 완전히 의존하지 않으며, 그럼에도 우리는 그곳에서 동맹을 돕기 위해 존재합니다. 우리는 그곳에 있을 필요가 없습니다. 우리는 그들의 석유가 필요하지 않습니다. 그들이 가진 어떤 것도 필요하지 않습니다. 하지만 우리는 동맹을 돕기 위해 그곳에 있습니다.

오늘 밤, 저는 우리 전사들이 이란에서 이룬 엄청난 진전을 보고하고, 왜 '에픽 퓨리 작전'이 미국의 안전과 자유 세계의 안보에 필수적인지 설명하고자 합니다. 제가 2015년 대통령 선거 출마를 선언한 첫날부터, 저는 이란이 핵무기를 갖는 것을 절대 허용하지 않겠다고 맹세했습니다. 이 광신적인 정권은 47년 동안 "미국에 죽음을, 이스라엘에 죽음을"을 외쳐왔습니다. 그들의 대리 세력은 베이루트 해병대 막사 폭탄 테러로 241명의 미국인을 살해했고, 도로변 폭탄으로 수백 명의 우리 군인을 قتل했습니다. 그들은 USS 콜 공격에도 연루됐으며, 수많은 잔혹한 범죄를 저질렀습니다. 여기에는 이스라엘에서 10월 7일 발생한 끔찍하고 피비린내 나는 학살도 포함됩니다. 대부분의 사람들이 그런 것을 본 적이 없습니다. 이 살인적인 정권은 최근 자국 내 시위대 4만5천 명을 قتل했습니다. 이 테러리스트들이 핵무기를 갖는 것은 용납할 수 없는 위협입니다. 지구상에서 가장 폭력적이고 난폭한 정권이 핵무기 뒤에 숨어 테러, 협박, 정복, 대량 학살을 자행하게 될 것입니다. 저는 절대 그것을 허용하지 않을 것이며, 과거 어떤 대통령도 그래서는 안 됩니다.

이 상황은 47년 동안 지속되어 왔으며, 제가 취임하기 훨씬 전에 해결되었어야 했습니다. 저는 두 번의 임기 동안 이란의 핵무기 추구를 막기 위해 많은 조치를 취했습니다. 가장 중요한 조치 중 하나는 카셈 솔레이마니 장군을 제거한 것입니다. 그는 사악한 천재였고, 뛰어난 사람이었지만 끔찍한 인간이었습니다. 그는 도로변 폭탄의 아버지였습니다. 그는 끔찍한 일을 했습니다. 그가 살아 있었다면 이란은 훨씬 더 강력한 위치에 있었을 것입니다. 우리는 오늘 밤 다른 대화를 하고 있었을지도 모릅니다. 그러나 어쨌든 우리는 여전히 승리하고 있었을 것입니다.

그리고 매우 중요하게도, 저는 버락 오바마의 이란 핵 합의를 종료했습니다. 그것은 재앙이었습니다. 오바마는 그들에게 17억 달러의 현금을 제공했습니다. 실제 현금이었습니다. 버지니아, 워싱턴 D.C., 메릴랜드 은행에서 꺼낸 돈을 비행기로 운송해 그들의 존중과 충성을 사려고 했지만, 실패했습니다. 그들은 우리 대통령을 비웃었고 핵무기 개발을 계속했습니다. 그 합의는 이란에게 막대한 핵무기 비축을 허용했을 것입니다. 그들은 이미 그것을 보유했을 것이고, 사용했을 것입니다. 지금의 중동과 이스라엘은 존재하지 않았을 것입니다. 저는 그 끔찍한 합의를 종료한 것을 매우 자랑스럽게 생각합니다.

본질적으로 저는 다른 어떤 대통령도 하지 못한 일을 했습니다. 그들은 실수를 했고, 저는 그것을 바로잡고 있습니다. 제 첫 번째 선택은 항상 외교였습니다. 그러나 이 정권은 핵무기 추구를 멈추지 않았고 모든 협상 시도를 거부했습니다. 그래서 저는 6월 '미드나이트 해머 작전'을 통해 이란의 핵 시설을 타격했습니다. 누구도 본 적 없는 작전이었습니다. B-2 폭격기들은 완벽하게 임무를 수행했습니다. 우리는 그 핵 시설을 완전히 파괴했습니다. 그러나 정권은 다른 장소에서 핵 프로그램을 재건하려 했고, 핵무기를 포기할 의사가 없음을 분명히 했습니다.

그들은 또한 대량의 탄도미사일을 빠르게 축적하고 있었으며, 곧 미국 본토와 유럽, 전 세계 어디든 도달할 수 있는 미사일을 보유할 예정이었습니다. 그들의 전략은 명확했습니다. 가능한 많은 미사일을 가능한 긴 사거리로 생산하는 것이었습니다. 우리는 그것을 모두 제거했습니다.

제가 에픽 퓨리 작전 발표에서 말했듯이, 우리의 목표는 단순하고 명확합니다. 이란이 미국을 위협하거나 해외에서 영향력을 행사할 능력을 체계적으로 제거하는 것입니다. 우리는 그들의 해군을 제거했고, 공군과 미사일 프로그램을 심각하게 약화시켰으며, 방위 산업 기반을 파괴했습니다.

우리는 13명의 미군 전사자를 기억합니다. 저는 도버 공군기지를 방문해 그들의 가족들과 함께했습니다. 우리는 그들의 희생을 기리며 임무를 완수할 것입니다. 우리는 이스라엘, 사우디아라비아, 카타르, UAE, 쿠웨이트, 바레인 등 동맹국들에게 감사드립니다.

최근 휘발유 가격 상승은 이란의 유조선 공격 때문입니다. 미국 경제는 이 위협에 대응할 준비가 되어 있습니다. 우리는 세계 최고의 경제를 구축했습니다. 우리는 세계 최대 석유·가스 생산국이며, 베네수엘라로부터도 막대한 공급을 받고 있습니다. 우리는 호르무즈 해협의 석유에 거의 의존하지 않습니다.

이란은 군사적으로, 경제적으로 완전히 약화되었습니다. 해협을 사용하는 국가들은 스스로 그 항로를 보호해야 합니다. 연료를 확보하지 못하는 국가들에 제안합니다.

첫째, 미국에서 석유를 구매하십시오. 둘째, 더 용기를 가지십시오. 이 분쟁이 끝나면 해협은 자연스럽게 다시 열릴 것입니다.

우리는 역사적인 감세 정책으로 경제를 강화했습니다. 우리는 매우 가까운 시일 내에 군사 목표를 달성할 것입니다. 향후 2~3주 동안 우리는 이란을 매우 강하게 타격할 것입니다. 그들을 석기시대로 되돌릴 것입니다.

동시에 협상은 계속되고 있습니다. 정권 교체는 목표가 아니었지만, 지도자들의 죽음으로 사실상 변화가 일어났습니다. 합의가 없을 경우, 우리는 그들의 발전소를 동시에 공격할 것입니다. 우리는 그들의 석유 시설을 공격하지 않았지만, 원한다면 언제든지 가능합니다. 그들은 방공 능력도, 레이더도 없습니다.

우리는 멈출 수 없는 군사력입니다. 이란의 핵 시설은 완전히 파괴되었으며, 움직임이 포착되면 다시 공격할 것입니다. 우리는 모든 카드를 가지고 있고, 그들은 아무것도 가지고 있지 않습니다. 이 분쟁을 역사적으로 보면, 우리는 단 32일 동안 작전을 수행했으며 이미 이란은 무력화되었습니다.

이것은 미래 세대를 위한 투자입니다. 전 세계가 우리의 힘과 군사력을 보고 놀라고 있습니다. 우리는 곧 이란의 위협에서 벗어날 것입니다. 그리고 모든 것이 끝나면, 미국은 그 어느 때보다 더 안전하고, 강하고, 번영하며, 위대한 나라가 될 것입니다. 미국 군 장병들에게 하나님의 축복이 있기를 바라며, 미국에도 하나님의 축복이 있기를 바랍니다. 감사합니다.

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My fellow Americans, good evening. Let me begin by congratulating the team at NASA and our brave astronauts on the successful launch of Artemis II, it was quite something. It will be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially pass the moon, go around it and come back home from a distance that has never been done before. It's amazing. They are on the way and God bless them, these are brave people. We want to - God bless those four unbelievable astronauts.

As we speak this evening, it's been just one month since the United States military began Operation Epic Fury, targeting the world's No. 1 state sponsor of terror, Iran. In these past four weeks, our armed forces have delivered swift, decisive, overwhelming victories on the battlefield. Victories like few people have ever seen before. Tonight, Iran's navy is gone. Their air force is in ruins. Their leaders, most of them, terrorist regime, they led, are now dead. Their command and control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is being decimated as we speak. Their ability to launch missiles and drones is dramatically curtailed. And their weapons, factories and rocket launchers are being blown to pieces. Very few of them left.

Never in the history of warfare has an enemy suffered such clear and devastating large-scale losses in a matter of weeks. Our enemies are losing and America, as it has been for five years under my presidency, is winning, and now winning bigger than ever before.

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Before discussing this current situation, I also want to thank our troops for the masterful job they did in taking the country of Venezuela in a matter of minutes. That hit was quick, lethal, violent and respected by everyone all over the world. After rebuilding our military during my first term, we have by far the strongest military anywhere in the world. And now we're working along with Venezuela and are, in a true sense, joint venture partners. We're getting along incredibly well in the production and sale of massive amounts of oil and gas, the second largest reserves on Earth after the United States of America. We're now totally independent of the Middle East, and yet we are there to help. We don't have to be there. We don't need their oil. We don't need anything they have. But we're there to help our allies.

Tonight, I want to provide an update on the tremendous progress our warriors have made in Iran and discuss why Operation Epic Fury is necessary for the safety of America and the security of the free world. From the very first day I announced my campaign for president in 2015, I vowed that I would never allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. This fanatical regime has been chanting, "Death to America, death to Israel" for 47 years. Their proxies were behind the murder of 241 Americans in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, the slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs. They were involved in the attack on the USS Cole, and they carried out the countless other heinous acts, including the blood - just horrible, bloody atrocities of Oct. 7 in Israel, something that most people, never seen anything like it. This murderous regime also recently killed 45,000 of their own people who were protesting in Iran, 45,000 dead. For these terrorists to have nuclear weapons would be an intolerable threat. The most violent and thuggish regime on earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion, conquest and mass murder from behind a nuclear shield. I will never let that happen, and neither should any of our past presidents.

This situation has been going on for 47 years, and should have been handled long before I arrived in office. I did many things during my two terms in office to stop the quest for nuclear weapons by Iran. First, and perhaps most importantly, I killed General Qassem Soleimani. In my first term. He was an evil genius, brilliant person, a horrible human being, however, the father of the roadside bomb. And he lived, just horrible what he did. Iran would have been perhaps in a far better, stronger position had he lived. We would have had probably a different conversation tonight. But you know what? We'd still be winning and winning big.

And then, very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal, a disaster. Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash. Green, green cash - took it out of banks from Virginia, D.C. and Maryland. All the cash they had. Flew it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty, but it didn't work. They laughed at our president and went on with their mission to have a nuclear bomb. His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran. They would have had them years ago, and they would have used them, would have been a different world. There would have been no Middle East and no Israel right now, in my opinion - the opinion of a lot of great experts - had I not terminated that terrible deal. I was so honored to do it, I was so proud to do it, it was so bad right from the beginning.

Essentially, I did what no other president was willing to do. They made mistakes and I am correcting them. My first preference was always the path of diplomacy, yet the regime continued their relentless quest for nuclear weapons and rejected every attempt at an agreement. For this reason, in June, I ordered a strike on Iran's key nuclear facilities in Operation Midnight Hammer. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Those beautiful B-2 bombers performed magnificently. We totally obliterated those nuclear sites. The regime then sought to rebuild their nuclear program at a totally different location, making clear they had no intention of abandoning their pursuit of nuclear weapons.

They were also rapidly building a vast stockpile of conventional ballistic missiles, and would soon have had missiles that could reach the American homeland, Europe and virtually any other place on Earth. Iran's strategy was so obvious, they wanted to produce as many missiles as possible, and they did with the longest range possible, and they had some weapons that nobody believed they had. We just learned that, we took them out, we took them all out so that no one would really dare stop them and their race for a nuclear bomb, a nuclear weapon like nobody's ever seen before. They were right at the doorstep. For years, everyone has said that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. But in the end, those are just words. If you're not willing to take action when the time comes.

As I stated in my announcement of Operation Epic Fury, our objectives are very simple and clear. We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or reject power outside of their borders. That means eliminating Iran's navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their air force and their missile program at levels never seen before and annihilating their defense industrial base. We've done all of it. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their missiles are just about used up or beaten. Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran's military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb. Our armed forces have been extraordinary. There's never been anything like it militarily. Everyone is talking about it. And tonight, I'm pleased to say that these core strategic objectives are nearing completion.

As we celebrate this progress, we think especially of the 13 American warriors who have laid down their lives in this fight to prevent our children from ever having to face a nuclear Iran. Twice this past month, I have traveled to Dover Air Force Base, and it's been something, I wanted to be with those heroes as they returned to American soil. I was with them and their families, their parents, their wives, their husbands. We salute them. And now we must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives. And every single one of the people, their loved ones said, "Please, sir, please finish the job," every one of them, and we are going to finish the job and we're going to finish it very fast. We're getting very close.

I want to thank our allies in the Middle East: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain. They've been great, and we will not let them get hurt or fail in any way, shape or form. Many Americans have been concerned to see the recent rise in gasoline prices here at home. This short-term increase has been entirely the result of the Iranian regime launching deranged terror attacks against commercial oil tankers and neighboring countries that have nothing to do with the conflict. This is yet more proof that Iran can never be trusted with nuclear weapons. They will use them and they will use them quickly. It would lead to decades of extortion, economic pain and instability worse than we can ever imagine.

The United States has never been better prepared economically to confront this threat. You all know that. We built the strongest economy in history. We're going through it right now, the strongest in history. And one year we've taken a dead and crippled country. I hate to say that, but we were a dead and crippled country after the last administration and made it the hottest country anywhere in the world by far, with no inflation, record setting investments coming into the United States, over $18 trillion and the highest stock market ever with 53 all-time record highs in just one year. It all positioned us to get rid of a cancer that has long simmered. It's known as the nuclear Iran, and they didn't know what was coming. They'd never imagined it.

Remember, because of our drill baby drill program, America has plenty of gas. We have so much gas. Under my leadership, we are No. 1 producer of oil and gas on the planet, without even discussing the millions of barrels that we're getting from Venezuela. Because of the Trump administration's policies, we produce more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. Think of that. Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. And that number will soon be substantially higher than that. There's no country like us anywhere in the world, and we're in great shape for the future. The United States imports almost no oil through the Hormuz Strait and won't be taking any in the future. We don't need it. We haven't needed it, and we don't need it. We've beaten and completely decimated Iran. They are decimated both militarily and economically and in every other way. And the countries of the world that do receive oil through the Hormuz Straight must take care of that passage. They must cherish it. They must grab it and cherish it. They could do it easily. We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil that they so desperately depend on.

So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran - we had to do it ourselves - I have a suggestion. No. 1, buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty. We have so much. And No. 2, build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before. Should have done it with us as we asked. Go to the straight and just take it, protect it, use it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done, so it should be easy.

And in any event, when this conflict is over, the strait will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally. They're going to want to be able to sell oil because that's all they have to try and rebuild. It will resume the flowing and the gas prices will rapidly come back down. Stock prices will rapidly go back up. They haven't come down very much, frankly. They came down a little bit. But they've had some very good days over the last couple of days. We've done actually much better than I thought. But we had to take that little journey to Iran to get rid of this horrible threat.

With our historic tax cuts, where people are just now talking about receiving larger refunds than they ever thought possible, they are getting so much more money than they thought. That's from the great big, beautiful bill. Our economy is strong and improving by the day, and it will soon be roaring back like never before. It will top the levels that it was a month ago. I made clear from the beginning of Operation Epic Fury that we will continue until our objectives are fully achieved. Thanks to the progress we've made. I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly. Very shortly.

We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong. In the meantime, discussions are ongoing. Regime change was not our goal. We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original leaders' death. They're all dead. The new group is less radical and much more reasonable. Yet if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets. If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously. We have not hit their oil, even though that's the easiest target of all, because it would not give them even a small chance of survival or rebuilding. But we could hit it and it would be gone. And there's not a thing they could do about it. They have no anti-aircraft equipment. Their radar is 100% annihilated. We are unstoppable as a military force. The nuclear sites that we obliterated with the B-2 bombers have been hit so hard that it would take months to get near the nuclear dust. And we have it under intense satellite surveillance and control. If we see them make a move, even a move for it, we'll hit them with missiles very hard again. We have all the cards. They have none.

It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective. American involvement in World War I lasted one year, seven months and five days. World War II lasted for three years, eight months and 25 days. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month and two days. The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months and 29 days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight months and 28 days. We are in this military operation, so powerful, so brilliant against one of the most powerful countries for 32 days. And the country has been eviscerated and essentially is really no longer a threat. They were the bully of the Middle East, but they are the bully no longer. This is a true investment in your children and your grandchildren's future. The whole world is watching and they can't believe the power, strength and brilliance, they just can't believe what their seeing, they, leave it to your imagination, but they can't believe what they're seeing, the brilliance of the United States military.

Tonight, every American can look forward to a day when we are finally free from the wickedness of Iranian aggression and the specter of nuclear blackmail. Because of the actions we have taken, we are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat to America and the world. And I'll tell you, the world is watching. And when we do, when it's all over, the United States will be safer, stronger, more prosperous and greater than it has ever been before.

May God bless the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, and may God bless the United States of America. Thank you very much, and good night.