Trump says Iranian ships that come close to US blockade will be ‘eliminated’

US President Donald Trump warned on Monday that any Iranian “fast-attack” ships that go near a US maritime blockade on Iran would be “eliminated.”Trump made the threat shortly after the US blockade on vessels entering and departing Iran had been due to come into effect at 1400 GMT on Monday.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Describing Iran’s navy as “completely obliterated” during the six-week-long war between the US and Iran, Trump posted on Truth Social: “What we have not hit are their small number of, what they call, ‘fast attack ships,’ because we did not consider them much of a threat.”“Warning: If any of these ships come anywhere close to our BLOCKADE, they will be immediately ELIMINATED, using the same system of kill that we use against the drug dealers on boats at Sea. It is quick and brutal,” Trump wrote.Trump was referring to the dozens of US strikes carried out against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific since

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