OREANDA-NEWS. President of the United States of America Donald Trump reported that he had ordered the Navy command to destroy Iranian warships that pursue American vessels at sea. “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 politician wrote on his Twitter page.

According to Reuters information agency, the American leader responded to an incident in the Persian Gulf when 11 vessels of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) marched alongside American forces.

Earlier, the Navy of the IRGC informed that an incident with American ships occurred in the Persian Gulf on April 15. It claimed that the United States conducted provocative actions. Official Tehran promised to give a “decisive answer” to any Washington’s error committed in the Gulf.