{"id":53214,"date":"2020-04-22T13:52:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=53214"},"modified":"2020-04-22T13:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T18:52:09","slug":"53214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=53214","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/22\/trump-says-us-will-destroy-iranian-gunboats-that-harass-american-ships.html\">Trump says US will \u2018destroy\u2019 Iranian gunboats that harass American ships<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1252932181447630848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump warned on Wednesday that the United States would destroy Iranian gunboats that harass American ships at sea.<\/p>\n<p>The threat, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/22\/meltdown-in-oil-continues-as-brent-plunges-more-than-15percent.html\">contributed to a recovery in oil prices<\/a>, came\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/04\/15\/iranian-vessels-came-dangerously-close-to-us-military-ships-in-the-gulf.html\">days after the Pentagon claimed<\/a>\u00a0that ships from Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy took\u00a0\u201cdangerous and provocative\u201d\u00a0actions near U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<div class=\"BoxInline-container  \">\n<div id=\"BoxInline-ArticleBody-5\" class=\"BoxInline-container\" data-module=\"mps-slot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,\u201d the president wrote in a post on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=@CL.1\">West Texas Intermediate<\/a>, the U.S. benchmark, rose more than than 30% on Wednesday after slumping to historic lows this year as the coronavirus pandemic crushed demand. Iran\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=709&amp;amp;t=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">produced 3% of the world\u2019s oil last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Six U.S. military vessels were conducting training operations in international waters last week when 11 Iranian ships \u201ccrossed the bows and sterns of the U.S. vessels at extremely close range and high speeds,\u201d according to the April 15 U.S. Navy statement.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the Iranian ships came within 10 yards of the Coast Guard cutter Maui\u2019s bow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says US will \u2018destroy\u2019 Iranian gunboats that harass American ships I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea. &mdash; Donald J. 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