POTUS says the US is "starting the process of clearing out" Strait of Hormuz

The United States is beginning to clear sea mines laid by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz as the two-week ceasefire remains in effect, President Trump announced on Saturday morning.

Trump said the only threat that Iranian forces had left was that a ship may “bunk” into their sea mines, which the Islamic regime apparently can’t locate. Trump suggested this was the case because Iran doesn’t have the means to retrieve them.

“All 28 of their mine dropper boats are also lying at the bottom of the sea,” he wrote on Truth Social. [You gotta love 'mine dropper boats'. Technically they're called minelayers.]

“We’re now starting the process of clearing out the Strait of Hormuz as a favor to Countries all over the World, including China, Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, and many others,” he said. “Incredibly, they don’t have the Courage or Will to do this work themselves.”

Shortly before the announcement, Axios reported several U.S. Navy ships crossed the strait on Saturday in a move that was not coordinated with the Islamic regime.

Iranian state media reported that Tehran threatened to attack a U.S. destroyer if it continued sailing toward the Strait of Hormuz, communicating their warning to a mediator in Pakistan. The U.S. did not receive word of such a warning, according to an Axios reporter.

Both sides are engaging in peace talks in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Saturday after a tentative deal to pause the fighting was made earlier this week. Vice President JD Vance is heading the U.S. delegation.

A U.S. official said the operation was “focused on freedom of navigation through international waters,” referring to the sea mine recovery efforts.

Trump continues to boast that much of Iran’s military capabilities are destroyed and its senior leaders, including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed.

“Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft apparatus is nonexistent, Radar is dead, [not Radar O'Reilly from M*A*S*H* since capitalizing that word might have confused older readers] their Missile and Drone Factories have been largely obliterated along with the Missiles and Drones themselves and, most importantly, their longtime ‘Leaders’ are no longer with us, praise be to Allah,” he said in a comment appearing to mock Islam.

Look, this is classic Trump, turning a military mop-up into a global public service announcement while the mullahs are still pretending they have a navy. The Iranians spent years bragging about their "asymmetric warfare" with those cheap little mine boats, and now all 28 of them are decorating the seafloor like some kind of underwater parking lot for losers.

The man is out here doing the world a solid, clearing the Strait of Hormuz so China and Europe do not have to get their soft little hands dirty, and they are still too cowardly to say thank you. 

Meanwhile, Tehran is issuing threats through Pakistani middlemen like it's 1979 all over again. Newsflash, guys, your destroyers are at the bottom of the ocean, your leaders are checking in with Allah and the Goats, and nobody in Washington even got the memo on your big scary warning.

This is what winning looks like when you actually have a president who is not interested in managed decline. The mullahs are finished, their toys are smashed, and Trump is out here mocking them in their own holy language. Praise be, indeed.

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