Instructs Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats
April 22, 2020 at 6:52 am Updated April 22, 2020 at 2:45 pm
By Anne Gearan, Carol Morello, John Wagner and Dan Lamothe
The Washington Post
... Trump .. Wednesday .. directed the Navy to “shoot down and destroy” Iranian gunboats that “harass” U.S. ships ...
It was the president’s most direct threat of military action against Iran since the two nations came close to war in January, when Trump ordered the killing of a top Iranian general ...
Although Trump said he had “instructed” the Navy on the U.S. response, the nation’s No. 2 military officer later said the decision to use deadly force against an Iranian ship is up to individual Navy commanders, depending on the level of threat to their ships and sailors ...
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