(Daily Mail)
David Martosko and Darren Boyle
July 19, 2019 17:28
President Donald Trump said Friday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has endangered itself by seizing a pair of British oil tankers in the Persian Gulf.
'Iran is showing their true colors,' he told reporters on the South Lawn of the White House has he departed for a weekend in New Jersey.
'Iran is in big trouble.'
The president warned that although the U.S. doesn't have many tankers in the Gulf because it is trending toward energy independence, 'we have a lot of ships there that are warships.'
He predicted the situation 'is going to work out very nicely,' in part because of an informal but 'long standing' U.S.-UK mutual defense agreement.
'We have no written agreement, but we have an agreement,' Trump said of Britain. 'They've been a very great ally of ours. ... We'll be working with the U.K. They'll have a new prime minister soon, which is a good thing.'
The president gloated that Iran's belligerence is a sign he was right to distrust Tehran's mullahs in the way his predecessor did, regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions.
'This only goes to show what I'm saying about Iran. Trouble, nothing but trouble,' he said. 'And remember this, the agreement, the ridiculous agreement made by President Obama, expires in a very short period of time.
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