Clora Drews
US President Donald Trump threatened to bring ‘death, fire and fury’ down on Iran if it were to cut off the passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
The president took to his Truth Social platform Monday night to warn Iranian officials that any action to stop the flow of oil will result in the country getting struck being ‘hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far.’
‘Additionally, we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back,’ he continued, adding that he hopes and prays that does not happen.
Trump had made similar threats earlier in the evening when he spoke to the press for the first time since the US and Israel struck Iran on February 28, vowing to ‘take them out so quickly, they’ll never be able to recover.’
Trump’s post came hours after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reportedly announced that any Arab or European country that expels the ambassadors of the US and Israel will have ‘full authority and freedom’ to pass through the Strait of Hormuz starting on Tuesday.
An Iranian source with knowledge of the country’s leadership strategy has since told CNN that it is planning to impose ‘security duties’ on oil tankers and commercial ships that belong to countries allied with the US.
But French President Emmanuel Macron had already announced an ambitious plan to deploy two warships to the Strait of Hormuz amid increasing fears over surging oil prices, which hit more than $100 per barrel for the first time in four years.
Speaking in Cyprus, President Macron said the ‘purely defensive mission’ led by France and its allies would protect oil and gas shipments through the waterway where traffic has been choked off following the war with Iran.
The French leader said he wanted to see an ‘unprecedented’ naval force of European and non-European ships in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and off the Strait of Hormuz consisting of a total of eight frigates, two helicopter carriers and the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
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