US President Donald Trump warned that US forces will destroy any approaching Iranian “attack ships” to the naval blockade of Iran’s ports imposed by the United States and which came into force this Monday.
“Warning: If any of these ships come even remotely close to our blockade, they will be eliminated immediately“Trump said on his Truth Social network. He added that the rest of the Iranian Navy had been “completely annihilated.”
Trump warned that the United States armed forces will use “the same elimination system” used “against drug traffickers on ships on the high seas,” referring to air attacks against alleged narcotics vessels in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
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The United States Army imposed a blockade of all Iranian ports this Monday, after talks in Pakistan failed due to Iran’s refusal to give up its nuclear program, according to President Trump.
The circulation of ships that do not leave Iran or go to this country will be authorized, specified the United States central command for the Middle East.
Trump claimed on Fox News that the United Kingdom “and some other countries” would send minesweepers.
Iran’s response was immediate.
For the Iranian army The blockade would be “illegal” and an act of “piracy”, and warned that if this is carried out, no Gulf port “will be safe” from reprisals.
Countries like Spain and China are not satisfied either.
“It is something without sense, without reason (…) one more episode of all this drift in which we have been put,” said the Minister of Defense of Aspaña, Margarita Robles, alluding to Trump.
France announced that it will soon organize, together with the United Kingdom, a conference with countries “willing to contribute” to a “peaceful mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation” in the strait once “the situation allows it.”
