Source : Perth Now news
According to US President Donald Trump, he claims he has mandated that the defense” shoot and kill” little Iranian vessels that use mine to stifle visitors through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump’s early-morning tweet on social media came soon after the US government seizes another tanker linked to Iranian oil, causing a stand-off over the sea, through which 20 % of all crude oil and natural gas transits.
Trump posted,” I have ordered the United States Navy to capture and eliminate any boat, little boats though they may be,” and that is putting mine in the lakes of the Strait of Hormuz.
” There is no fear. Also, our mine’s” workers” are currently clearing the Strait.
” I hereby order that action to proceed, but this time at a tripled-up level”! Trump even flinched.
He added that the government is conducting more stone clearing in the crucial waterway.
His article did not mention how to deal with Iran’s another means of preventing delivery along the way, particularly speedboats, missiles, and drones.
The action comes a time after Iran’s military Revolutionary Guards attacked three goods ships in the sea and captured two of them.
During the night, masked troops climbed a rope staircase to a shell entry in the hull, jumped through a blazing rifles, and pulled up in a dark boat alongside the MSC Francesca on state television.
Sights of another fleet, the Epaminondas, were also included in the film, which was presented with an action-movie-style song and no criticism.
On Wednesday, Iran claimed to have captured both of them and accused them of trying to cross the sea without grants.
Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the head of Iran’s courts, claimed that the merchant vessels that attacked in the peninsula had “faced the law.”
Egyptian speedboats and aquatic drones were avoiding the US military by hiding in ocean caves off an island close to the strait, he claimed.
The US Defense Department released videos footage before on Thursday showing US troops standing on the balcony of the Majestic X, a ship carrying fuel that had been seized in the Indian Ocean.
” We will remain international maritime enforcement to disrupt unlawful systems and injunction warships providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate,” according to a Pentagon speech.
The Majestic X was located in the Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, almost the same place as the Tifani, an oil tanker that was previously seized by US troops.
It had left Zhoushan, China, on its way.
Prior to this, the ship was known as Phonix and had been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in 2024 for bringing Egyptian crude oil into Iran in breach of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Trump continued to impose a US blockade of Egyptian ports on Tuesday while extending a peace.
No word on whether Pakistan’s previous peace deals may start again immediately.
Essentially, almost all imports through the sea have been halted by the US-Iranian standoff, with no solution in sight.
More than 30 boats have been attacked in the lakes of the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman since the war started on February 28.
with News
