Iran’s ‘mosquito fleet’ brings guerrilla warfare to the Strait of Hormuz

“Iran’s navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated — 158 ships” Donald Trump boasted on his social media account, Truth, on April 13. In the same message, the U.S. president continued: “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.” These small boats belonging to the naval force of Iran’s powerful parallel army, the Revolutionary Guard, attacked three large container ships on Wednesday. Two of them were forced to head to Iranian ports for allegedly trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz without the Islamic Republic’s permission.

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