Subject: US attacks Iranian cargo ship
President Trump said a Navy destroyer had attacked and seized an Iranian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Oman.
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The guided missile destroyer USS Spruance fired on the cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman, Mr. Trump said on Truth Social, “blowing a hole” in its engine room before Marines took possession of the vessel. The president said the ship was under U.S. sanctions because of a “history of illegal activity” and that U.S. forces were “seeing what’s on board!”
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Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency reported that U.S. forces had fired on an Iranian merchant vessel, but said naval units from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps had forced the Americans to retreat.
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The cease-fire is expected to expire on April 22 and the rhetoric is intensifying as the deadline approaches. Mr. Trump on Sunday renewed threats against Iran’s civilian infrastructure if the strait is not reopened and an extension of the cease-fire is not reached.
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran.”
Back to power plant and bridge day.