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Trump orders the Marines to destroy any Iranian boat that intercepts American ships


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58 minutes ago, DoD said:

About friggen time, finally a president with some balls an a little back bone. He should have already blasted their a$$ out of the water. I'm sure everyone remembers the footage of our sailors being captured an humiliated by these terrorist's morons, I sure do...

 

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Trump orders the Marines to destroy any Iranian boat that intercepts American ships


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22nd April, 2020


US President Donald Trump has ordered the US Marines to destroy any Iranian boats that intercept American ships.

The US Navy accused Iran of carrying out "provocative and dangerous" acts against a number of American ships in international waters in the Gulf. The US military said that 11 Iranian boats were exposed to six American ships participating in military exercises in the Gulf waters. The US Navy explained that the boats approached the American ships at a high speed, and accused Tehran of violating international rules.

The Navy statement said that the American forces reserve the right to act to defend themselves. There was no comment from the Iranian authorities. The American ships issued many warnings to the Iranian boats, which moved away after about an hour, according to the statement. Tensions rose between Washington and Tehran earlier this year after a US air strike in Iraq killed the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassem Soleimani.

Then, on January 8, Iran retaliated with a missile attack on the Iraqi base of al-Asad where US forces were located, without causing the death or injury. Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump said Iran and its proxies had planned attacks on US targets in Iraq, and warned that they would pay a "very high price".

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President Trump ordered the U.S. Navy to blow Iranian gunboats out of the water if they harass our ships. Last week three U.S. vessels – a guided-missile destroyer, a Coastguard cutter, and a supply vessel – were harassed off Kuwait.

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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had instructed the U.S. Navy to fire on any Iranian ships that harass it at sea, a week after 11 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came dangerously close to U.S. ships in the Gulf.

 

He tweeted, “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.”

Trump’s intervention is a week after nearly a dozen Iranian naval vessels repeatedly harassed and made “dangerous” approaches to American ships conducting operations in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait in a tense exchange that last more than an hour.

A group of 11 ships with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps repeatedly crossed the bows and sterns of the U.S. Navy’s Bahrain-based 5th Fleet at close range and high speeds – with one passing within just 10 meters of a Coast Guard cutter.

The “dangerous and provocative actions increased the risk of miscalculation and collision,” a statement from U.S. Central Command said, adding that U.S commanders on the scene “retain the inherent right to self-defense.”

 

The American vessels included the USS Paul Hamilton, a Navy destroyer; the USS Lewis B. Puller, a ship that serves as an afloat landing base; and the USCGC Maui. Coastguard vessels are part of U.S. forces in the Gulf.

The ships were operating with U.S. Army Apache attack helicopters in international waters, the statement said.

Iranians have been doing this for over a decade now.

THE ‘SATELLITE’ LAUNCH

This came hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had launched the country’s first military satellite into orbit.

Iranians are using this as cover for their nuclear missile development, President Trump said.

“The first satellite of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been successfully launched into orbit by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” said the Revolutionary Guards’ Sepahnews website.

The satellite “orbited the earth at 264 miles,” said the website.

“This action will be a great success and a new development in the field of space for Islamic Iran,” the statement added, according to the tabloid Daily Mail.

The surprise operation comes more than two months after Iran launched but failed to put into orbit another satellite that it said had no military dimensions.

Washington says that these satellite launches defy a UN Security Council resolution on ballistic missiles.

THE MULLAHS' REGIME RULING #IRAN HARASSES UN NAVY SHIPS FOR PROPAGANDA PURPOSES.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, FOR REMINDING THIS REGIME THAT THE OBAMA YEARS ARE GONE.

AND BTW, THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT THE IRANIAN PEOPLE.PIC.TWITTER.COM/LBYJTGLLTQ

— HESHMAT ALAVI (@HESHMATALAVI) APRIL 22, 2020

 

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