Trump instructs US Navy to provide insurance for tankers and escort them militarily in the Gulf at a very reasonable price!

US President Donald Trump announced that he has instructed to provide trade risk insurance and affordable guarantees to secure maritime trade transiting the Persian Gulf, particularly energy trade.

In a post on Truth social, Trump noted that the US Navy would begin escorting oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary.

Trump said he had instructed USAID to provide security against political risks and guarantees at a very reasonable price to ensure the financial security of all maritime trade passing through the Persian Gulf.

He pointed out that the decision will come into effect immediately, and that it will include all shipping companies.

Trump stressed that the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world under any circumstances, stressing that the economic and military power of the United States is the largest in the world, and more steps are coming.

About 20 million barrels of oil pass through the Strait of Hormuz daily, and two alternative routes for energy transmission from the Persian Gulf countries to the rest of the world are offset.

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump boasted about the widespread devastation inflicted on Iran by the US-Israeli attack on it, saying things were going well.

Trump told reporters after meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that almost everything in Iran has been destroyed.

Trump said the United States isn’t where we want to be in terms of its stockpile of state-of-the-art weapons, at a time when Washington is using its massive military arsenal in the war against Iran.

“We’ve a good stockpile of the latest weapons, but we’re not where we’re at,” he wrote on Truth Social, adding that the US has enough weapons of the medium and upper medium range”.

Trump on Tuesday denied that Israel had dragged the United States into a war with Iran, saying, “In fact, I may have pushed them to do so”.

This came in a statement to reporters during his meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office, during which he discussed the Iranian file.

Asked if Israel had dragged the United States into a war with Iran, Trump said, “No, maybe I was the one who pressured them, my opinion was that they would launch the first attack, if we didn’t attack them, they would have attacked us, they would have started the attack, I was very confident of that”.

“If I had done something, I might have put pressure on Israel, but Israel was already ready, we were also ready, we had a very strong impact because almost everything they had was destroyed,” he added.

Trump noted that they have hit Iran hard, and that its air and naval defense systems and many other weapons systems have been destroyed.

He noted that the weapons available to the United States allow it to fight wars forever, with great success, using only these supplies (which are better than the latest weapons of other countries!).

Trump touched on former US President Joe Biden’s gifts to Ukraine, accusing his Democratic predecessor of having provided a large part of the latest weapons to Kyiv, without talking about the current conflict the United States is currently engaged in in the Middle East.

The US president also claimed that Iran would have had nuclear weapons not unilaterally withdrawn from the international agreement with Tehran in 2015.

Trump defended his decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal signed under former US President Barack Obama.

He called the Iran nuclear deal disastrous and claimed it was the most dangerous cooperation ever established with Iran.

Trump said that if he hadn’t unilaterally terminated the deal during his first term, “Iran would have had nuclear weapons about three years ago”.

The 2015 agreement was struck between Tehran and the permanent members of the Security Council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China — as well as Germany and the European Union to monitor and regulate Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.

But Trump, in his first term in office in 2018, decided to unilaterally withdraw from the historic agreement, after which Tehran began to gradually renege on its commitments.