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Persian Gulf Tension:Destroy hostile Iranian boats – Trump orders US Navy

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the United States Navy to destroy Iranian boats harassing U.S. ships.

This followed a tense encounter in the Persian Gulf.

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“I have instructed the U.S. Navy to shoot down and destroy any Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” Trump tweeted.

Iran had on Sunday accused America of giving a “Hollywood version of events”.

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The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it deployed boats for routine patrols after U.S. forces blocked one of its ships in two separate incidents in early April,

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The U.S. Navy posted a video of the latest incident on Twitter.

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The Navy, in a statement, said crews issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio, five short blasts from the ships’ horns and long-range acoustic noise maker devices, but received no response from the IRGCN.

“After approximately one hour, the IRGCN vessels responded to the bridge-to-bridge radio queries, then manoeuvred away from the US ships and opened distance between them”, it added.

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