We will destroy Iranian ships that will plague our forces

Iranians take a close look: US ships in Persian Gulf (Photo: Reuters)

Even during the Corona crisis, tensions in the Persian Gulf do not let go: US President Doland Trump
He announced at noon Wednesday that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to open fire and “destroy” Iranian cannon boats, should these “bother” American ships at sea.

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Trump made the threat as usual in a tweet on Twitter. “I instructed the United States Navy to fire and destroy any Iranian gunboat that would disturb our ships at sea,” Trump wrote. In the White House and the Pentagon, we have not yet responded to requests for comment and further details on this decision, which it faces quite dramatically – and is likely to incite tensions with Iran anyway.

A few feet away. The Iranian boats near the US ship a week ago

(Photo: AFP)

(Photo: AFP)

Shortly after Trump posted his tweet, Tehran responded that instead of threatening, the US should focus on “saving” its corona virus army – citing the fact that the virus also reached the ranks of the U.S. military, with an outbreak of one of the aircraft carriers, among others.
“Today, instead of threatening others, Americans should focus all their efforts on rescuing their troops who are infected with Corona,” said Abulafazel Karachi in a statement quoted by the official ISNA news agency.

Trump did not mention in his tweet a specific event for which he made the decision, but that comes just a week after the Persian Gulf incident
In which Iranian vessels approached a few feet from U.S. Navy ships. The incident happened last week between Wednesday and Thursday, and according to the U.S. military, Revolutionary Guards speed boats approached six US ships while jointly conducting an operation with Apache helicopters in the Gulf’s international waters, near Kuwait.

At one point, the US argued, Iranian ships reached only nine feet from American vessels. The Americans issued several warnings by various means to Iranians, who eventually moved away from the region after about an hour. “The dangerous and provocative actions of the Revolutionary Guards increased the risk of miscalculation and collision.” , The U.S. Army said at the time. “These actions were not carried out in accordance with the International Covenant and International Collision Prevention Regulations.”

On Sunday, after initially preventing the incident from happening, Tehran confirmed that there had been near-collisions between its ships and US ships, but blamed the US for this. Maritime incidents were relatively common until several years ago, but almost completely ceased in recent times.

US-Iran tensions reached new highs during Trump’s term, partly as a result of his decision to step down from the nuclear agreement in 2018 and restore sanctions on Tehran. The climax reached a climax in January this year, when the US eliminated Iranian Quds chief Qassem Suleimani ,
An assassination that followed a chain of events that began with missile fire at US bases in Iraq by pro-Iranian militias, a shooting that then led to the death of an American citizen.

In revenge for the Suleimani elimination, the Revolutionary Guards launched
So in response to ballistic missiles at US bases in Iraq, where US forces are stationed, causing brain trauma to more than 100 American soldiers. That night she dropped
Iranian Ukrainian passenger plane in Tehran, apparently after mistakenly identifying it as an American missile.

First military satellite. Iranian launch into space, archive

Earlier this month, Trump warned that Iran or its Iraqi militias are planning to carry out an attack on US targets, warning that “they will pay a very heavy price” if such an attack is carried out.

Trump’s current threat, it should be noted, also comes just hours after Revolutionary Guards declared that they had first launched into a military satellite space.
They called the launch, which they said was successful, “a great achievement.” The surprising launch this morning revealed what experts described as a “secret space program.”

Westerners warn that satellite launches are used by Tehran to advance its military capabilities, even in the nuclear field. The US estimates that the Iranian space program is not really intended for launching satellites, but for the development of Iran’s ballistic missile technology. Tehran previously denied that launching the satellites was intended to hide advances in the missile program.

The Iranian news agency “Mehr” reported this morning that the name of the launched satellite was “Noor-1”, and that it was launched using the “Kassad” launching missile, which was created in Iran itself. According to the report, the launch was done this morning. The agency noted that “Noor-1” is the first military satellite that Iran launches into space and that it was launched on the anniversary of the Revolutionary Guards establishment, April 22.