Trump threatens to shoot Iranian ships in Persian Gulf
‘Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has threatened that he would order the US Navy to open fire on Iranian boats, if they approach US warships in the Persian Gulf.
“And by the way, with Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water,” Trump said on Friday.
The real estate mogul made the remarks at a speech in Florida, two days after the US military said that a speedboat operated by Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) came within 100 yards (91 meters) of an American warship that was patrolling in the central Persian Gulf.’
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