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Trump Orders Navy to Shoot Boats Placing Mines in Hormuz Strait
April 23, 2026 at 12:55 PM UTCPresident Donald Trump ordered the US Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz and vowed to step up efforts to clear the critical energy waterway amid a standoff with Iran.“I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be (Their naval ships are ALL, 159 of them, at the bottom of the sea!), that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump said in a social media post on Thursday. “There is to be no hesitation.”
Donald Trump orders US Navy to 'shoot and kill' Iranian boats in Hormuz ...
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he has ordered the US military to “shoot and kill” Iranian small boats in the Strait of Hormuz. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “I have ordered the United States Navy to shoot and kill any boat, small boats though they may be… that is putting mines in the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.” He added, “There is to be no hesitation.” Trump also said that mine-clearing operations are underway in the waterway. “Additionally, our mine ‘sweepers’ are clearing the Strait right now,” he wrote. He further directed an increase in such activity, saying: “I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled up level.”Also Read Earlier in the day, the US military said it had seized another tanker allegedly linked to the smuggling of Iranian oil. The development came a day after Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The US Defence Department released a video showing American personnel boarding the oil tanker Majestic X, which was intercepted in the Indian Ocean. “We will continue global maritime enforcement to disrupt illicit networks and interdict vessels providing material support to Iran, wherever they operate,” the Pentagon said in a statement. Ship-tracking data placed the Majestic X in the Indian Ocean between Sri Lanka and Indonesia, in roughly the same area where another tanker, Tifani, had earlier been seized by US forces. The vessel was reportedly headed towards Zhoushan, China. The latest seizure followed Iran’s reported attack on three cargo ships in the strait a day earlier, during which two vessels were taken control of, intensifying disruptions in a waterway that handles around 20 per cent of global oil trade in normal times. The Majestic X, flagged in Guyana, was previously known as Phonix. It had been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department in 2024 for transporting Iranian crude in violation of sanctions imposed on Tehran. On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump extended a ceasefire while continuing an American blockade of Iranian ports. The ongoing standoff between Washington and Tehran has significantly curtailed exports through the strait, with no immediate resolution in sight.
Trump orders US Navy to 'shoot and kill' boats laying mines in Strait ...
President Trump in a morning social media post ordered the U.S. military to "shoot and kill" Iranian small boats choking the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump: Navy to shoot and kill any boat laying mines in Hormuz Strait - CNBC
President Donald Trump on Thursday said that he has ordered the U.S. Navy "to shoot and kill any boat" that is laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
