Iran is once more feeling their oats concerning President Trump’s recently imposed blockade on Iranian ports. There’s just one problem: Iran’s oats bin is all but empty, and all they have left with which to oppose American aircraft and warships are what they call “fast attack ships,” and what the rest of the world calls speedboats. The rest of the Iranian Navy is now new residential real estate for fish.
Once again, Iran’s mouth is writing checks its butt can’t cash. Monday morning, President Trump took to his Truth Social platform to call them out.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 13, 2026
The president writes:
Iran’s Navy is laying at the bottom of the sea, completely obliterated – 158 ships. 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. P.S. 98.2% of Drugs coming into the U.S. by Ocean or Sea have STOPPED! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT
The president is correct in that Iran’s speedboats are not a threat in the sense that their larger ships were before they became fish habitat. They shouldn’t be dismissed altogether, though. Unlike the drug-smuggling boats President Trump compares them to, these boats may well be carrying heavy machine guns and possibly a few shoulder-fired, portable surface-to-air missiles. While the boats themselves are just as susceptible to being converted to flying parts by American explosives as the drug cartels’ boats are, they should not be approached without some caution.
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That doesn’t mean we can’t continue dealing with these boats as we have with the cartel’s boats. This problem can be admirably solved with the appropriate use of high explosives.
On the higher level, though, this serves as an admirable illustration of just what dire straits (hah) Iran finds itself in. The United States has nuclear aircraft carriers, a wealth of fast, modern surface ships, and both strategic and tactical aircraft in the area. Iran’s air defenses are so degraded that our Cold War-era B-52s and A-10s can roam Iranian skies with near-impunity. And they are opposing us, in this new blockade of Iranian ports, with motorboats. Armed motorboats, perhaps, but motorboats of a type you would not be surprised to see operated by a happy family on any big American lake on any given summer Sunday afternoon.
Whoever Iran has manning these boats may want to talk to the people operating the cartels’ smuggling boats, for tactical advice. There’s just one problem: The cartel’s boat crews are all in new lodgings in Davy Jones’ locker. And they didn’t have A-10s patrolling overhead, cannon loaded, ready to turn any Iranian speedboats into scrap with one quick BRRRRT.
Iran can’t keep this up much longer. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel now. What will they be doing in another week?
Editor’s Note: For decades, former presidents have been all talk and no action. Now, Donald Trump is eliminating the threat from Iran once and for all.
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