President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Iran today on Twitter, saying he has “instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.”
Trump followed up by retweeting a video from an account reportedly run by the Iranian opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, which included the video the US Navy released last week showing 11 Iranian vessels harassing six American ships at dangerously close proximities. The US Navy released the video at the time. Trump accused former Vice President Joe Biden — the presumptive Democratic nominee for president — of thinking “this was OK. Not me!”
