“I have ordered the Navy to destroy any ship, even if it is a small vessel that lays mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” wrote the head of the White House on his social network Truth Social. “There must be no hesitation,” he said.
In the post, Trump did not fail to mention that the Americans had already sunk 159 Iranian warships during the war with Iran. At the same time, he encouraged the minesweeper crews to clean the waterways in the strait more quickly.
“I hereby order that this activity continue, but in a threefold scale,” the president added.
On Thursday, the US Department of Defense announced on the X network that sailors had seized the Iranian tanker Majestic X, which was allegedly smuggling oil under the Guinean flag and was supposed to be heading to China.
“We will continue global maritime surveillance to disrupt illicit networks and intercept vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate,” the Pentagon said.
