US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he has given the green light to the American Navy to attack and sink small Iranian military vessels if they start harassing US military 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 tweeted.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252932181447630848
A spokesperson for the Iranian Armed Forces has responded to the president's tweet by advising Washington to focus on saving its military from the coronavirus outbreak instead.
The US Navy has complained on multiple occasions that so-called Iranian fast boats are approaching dangerously close to their destroyers and carriers patrolling the Gulf region, said Russian news agency Sputnik.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1252960830255173634
On 15 April, the American military reported that a group of 11 vessels from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy harassed US warships in the northern Gulf.
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