Even as the Iran has continued to launch missile and drone attacks on Israel and neighbouring Gulf states, and has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's traded oil passes, US President Donald Trump said many countries, especially those that have been affected by "Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait", will be sending warships to keep the strait open and safe.
In a social media post, the US President claimed that the 100 per cent of Iran's military capability has already been destroyed.
He said, however, "it is easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close-range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are."
Trump expressed hope that countries like China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others who have been affected by the " artificial constraint" will send warships to the area so that the strait will no longer be a threat from a nation "that has been totally decapitated."
He said in the meantime, Trump will be "bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian boats and ships out of the water."
He vowed that one way or the other, the Strait of Hormuz will be "open, safe, and free."
Trump had also claimed that four of five tanker planes targeted in an attack on a base in Saudi Arabia suffered "virtually no damage. "Four of the five had virtually no damage and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly," he said in a social media post, slamming the media reports that said Iranian strikes damaged five US Air Force refuelling planes on the ground at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia.
