Trump warns any Iranian ships that come close to US blockade ‘will be immediately eliminated’

Diyar Guldogan

Any Iranian ships that come close to the US blockade of Iranian ports “will be immediately eliminated,” US President Donald Trump said Monday.

“Iran’s Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated – 158 ships. What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, ‘fast attack ships,’ because we did not consider them much of a threat,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth social.

“Warning: If any of these ships come anywhere close to our blockade, they will be immediately eliminated, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at sea,”

His warning came right after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) began implementing a blockade of all maritime traffic entering and exiting Iranian ports.