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Wednesday, April 22, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Trump says US will destroy any Iranian gunboats harassing American ships
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump says he has ordered the US military to attack and destroy any Iranian vessel that harasses US Navy ships.
“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 says on Twitter.
The order comes one week after 11 small armed Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps speedboats swarmed around US Navy and Coast Guard ships in international waters in the northern Gulf.
— AFP
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