Trump says 9 Iranian warships have been sunk

Dubai: US President Donald Trump says 9 ships in the Iranian navy have been sunk.

Trump said on social media Sunday that the ships had been "destroyed" and sunk, "some of them relatively large and important."

Trump said the rest of Iran's fleet of military vessels "will soon be floating at the bottom of the sea, also!" The president said that in a separate attack that Iran's naval headquarters was "largely destroyed."