TRUMP: "I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE U.S. NAVY TO DESTROY ANY & ALL IRANIAN GUNBOATS IF THEY HARASS OUR SHIPS AT SEA"

TRUMP: "I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE U.S. NAVY TO DESTROY ANY & ALL IRANIAN GUNBOATS 

IF THEY HARASS OUR SHIPS AT SEA" 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/trump-i-have-instructed-the-us-navy-to-destroy-any-and-all-iranian-gunboats-if-they-harass-our-ships-at-sea; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

purposes:

Donald J. Trump




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












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Just days ago, I wrote: “The Iranians may soon come to regret behaving as if Obama were still putting his feet up in the Oval Office.”



Iran has been pushing for war with the United States for decades. Get the details, and the full facts of the present situation, in The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran.



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Trump Orders Navy to Destroy Any Iranian Gunboats That Harass US Ships

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/04/trump-orders-navy-to-destroy-any-iranian-gunboats-that-harass-us-ships; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:

My latest in PJ Media:

On Wednesday morning, Earth Day no less, when any responsible president would have been hectoring people about global warming, President Trump had other concerns on his mind. “I have instructed the United States Navy,” he tweeted, “to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.”

Predictable scorn ensued from the Left. Writer Nick Jack Pappas was just one of the many who focused on Trump’s choice of words, tweeting, “Trump is giving the order to shoot down boats. I didn’t realize Iran had flying boats now.” They ignored the fact that one can shoot a man down without his being able to fly, but anything will do for a dig at the President. Iranian freedom activist and journalist Heshmat Alavi was more focused, tweeting: “The mullahs’ regime ruling #Iran harasses UN [sic] Navy ships for propaganda purposes. Thank you, President Trump, for reminding this regime that the Obama years are gone. And BTW, this regime does not represent the Iranian people.”

Alavi was right. The Iranian mullahs, apparently having forgotten that Barack Obama is no longer President, were at it again just last week. According to Business Insider, “nearly a dozen Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy vessels sailed out Wednesday to harass a collection of US Navy and Coast Guard vessels conducting operations in international waters.”

The U.S. Navy stated that eleven Iranian boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy (IRGCN) “conducted dangerous and harassing approaches,” and added that “the IRGCN’s dangerous and provocative actions increased the risk of miscalculation and collision.” The Iranians, said the Navy statement, were violating the “rules of the road.”

This was not, however, a simple traffic dispute. Leftists will no doubt ascribe it to an increase of tensions over President Trump’s targeting earlier this year of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. However, all those who are blaming Trump for ramping up tensions with Iran are ignoring the fact that Iran has been working toward a war with the U.S. for decades, as The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Iran demonstrates in detail.

On November 2, 2015, a commanding majority of the Majlis, 192 of its 290 members, agreed to a statement saying that “Death to America,” which continues to be chanted at every Friday prayer in Iranian mosques as well as at anti-American protests, was not just a slogan: it had “turned into the symbol of the Islamic Republic and all struggling nations.”

A communal desire to destroy the United States and commit mass murder of its citizens is the Islamic Republic of Iran’s very identity.

There is much more. Read the rest here.