President Donald
Trump on Wednesday ordered the United States Navy to destroy Iranian boats
harassing U.S. ships.
This followed a
tense encounter in the Persian Gulf.
“I have instructed
the U.S. Navy to shoot down and destroy any Iranian gunboats if they harass our
ships at sea,” Trump tweeted.
Iran had on Sunday
accused America of giving a “Hollywood version of events”.
The Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it deployed boats for routine patrols
after U.S. forces blocked one of its ships in two separate incidents in early
April,
The U.S. Navy posted
a video of the latest incident on Twitter.
The Navy, in a
statement, said crews issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio, five
short blasts from the ships’ horns and long-range acoustic noise maker devices,
but received no response from the IRGCN.
“After approximately
one hour, the IRGCN vessels responded to the bridge-to-bridge radio queries,
then manoeuvred away from the US ships and opened distance between them”, it
added.
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