Trump's order: "Shoot and kill"

Isak Fritzon

Updated 16.47 | Published 14.57

Iran says it has stopped two ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Now President Donald Trump is hitting back.

The order: "Shoot and kill all boats".

Iran's Revolutionary Guard says it has seized two ships in the Strait of Hormuz and brought them into Iranian waters on Wednesday. Both ships were fired upon, according to the British military, CNN reports.

One of the boats "opened fire on the ship" without warning them over the radio first, according to the UK.

The Revolutionary Guard has released a dramatic video that allegedly shows the sequence of events. A small, fast boat makes its way towards the tanker. Masked men climb onto the deck and storm the ship with automatic weapons drawn.

According to the Revolutionary Guard, the boats have “operated without permission, repeatedly violated regulations and manipulated the navigation system,” the Iranian state news agency IRIB reported.

         

         
        Iran has released images purportedly showing soldiers boarding a ship in the Strait of Hormuz.                   American experts have called the video a PR stunt. Photo: Irgc

Trump: Shoot and kill

US President Donald Trump has now ordered the US Navy to “shoot and kill” all boats – even small ones – that place mines in the Strait of Hormuz, he writes on Truth Social.

“There must be no doubt,” he writes.

The president also writes that the US has “full control” over the Strait of Hormuz and no ships can pass without American permission.

The military’s work to clear mines must be intensified.

“I hereby order that this work continue, but at a triple level.”

          

         
         Iranian boat at the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: Irgc