WASHINGTON ( WNAM MONITORING): : US President Donald Trump warned Monday that any Iranian attack boats that approach the naval blockade he has ordered around the country’s ports will be destroyed, despite international calls for a ceasefire to be respected and negotiations to resume.
The US military said the blockade would begin at 1400 GMT and apply to all ships leaving or seeking to dock at Iranian harbors, but as the deadline passed there was no announcement that the measure had come into effect, nor sign of any interceptions.
In a social media post, Trump said the bulk of Iran’s navy had already been destroyed during the war, but that if any of what he said were Tehran’s few remaining “fast attack ships” approach the blockade “they will be immediately ELIMINATED.”
