{"id":56972,"date":"2026-04-23T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56972"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:20:30","slug":"us-to-shoot-and-kill-iranian-boats-laying-mines-in-hormuz-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56972","title":{"rendered":"US to \u2018shoot and kill\u2019 Iranian boats laying mines in Hormuz, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Al Jazeera:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/22\/trump-calls-irans-leadership-fractured-is-it-and-whos-in-charge\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has said he ordered the United States Navy to \u201cshoot and kill\u201d any Iranian boat laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could jeopardise the fragile ceasefire between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US president also said on Thursday that the military will heighten its efforts to remove explosives from the strategic waterway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI 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. There is to be no hesitation,\u201d Trump wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, our mine \u2018sweepers\u2019 are clearing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/featured-documentaries\/2026\/4\/21\/strait-of-hormuz-how-a-threat-became-a-playbook\">the Strait<\/a>&nbsp;right now. I am hereby ordering that activity to continue, but at a tripled-up level!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iranian officials have repeatedly promised that their country would defend itself and respond to any US attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hormuz \u2013 which had been open without interruption before the war \u2013 has emerged as a major point of contention in this war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran closed down the strait in response to the US-Israeli military campaign, and it is now suggesting that it has rights to the passage that links the Gulf to the Indian Ocean \u2013 parts of which go through Iranian territorial waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;closure of Hormuz has spiked oil prices, putting political pressure on Trump at home in the US,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/10\/inflation-rises-in-us-amid-iran-war-hormuz-blockade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">where the price<\/a>&nbsp;of one gallon (3.8 litres) of petrol has surpassed $4,&nbsp;up from $3 before the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Jazeera: President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0has said he ordered the United States Navy to \u201cshoot and kill\u201d any Iranian boat laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a move that could jeopardise the fragile ceasefire between the two countries. The US president also said on Thursday that the military will heighten its efforts to remove explosives from the strategic waterway. \u201cI 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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56974,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56972\/revisions\/56974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}