“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” he tweeted on Wednesday.

On April 16, US Naval Forces Central Command claimed that Iranian vessels repeatedly conducted dangerous & harassing approaches against multiple U.S. naval ships operating in international waters of North Arabian Gulf.

However, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) denied the US Navy’s claims that it harassed the service’s warships in the Arabian Sea.  (ILKHA)