Trump Orders US Navy To Destroy Iranian Gunboats If Harass At Sea

Barely a week after 11 vessels from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) came dangerously close to U.S. ships in the Gulf, the United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday instructed the Navy to fire on any Iranian ships that harass his troop at sea.

Trump wrote in a tweet, hours after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had launched the country’s first military satellite into orbit.

‘I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,’

The tweet came amid a re-escalation of tension, with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards saying hours earlier that they had launched the country’s first military satellite, which the U.S. regards as a cover for missile development.

‘The first satellite of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been successfully launched into orbit by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,’ said the Guards’ Sepahnews website.

It said the satellite – dubbed the Nour, which means light – had been launched from the Qassed two-stage launcher from the Markazi desert, a vast expanse in Iran’s central plateau.

The satellite ‘orbited the earth at 264 miles’, said the website.

‘This action will be a great success and a new development in the field of space for Islamic Iran,’ the statement added.