President Trump Announces a Large Fleet of US Warships Is Moving Towards Iran – Threatens Iran on Hanging Protesters

President Trump on Thursday said he is sending a “massive armada” toward Iran amid the ongoing political uprising and the Iranian regime’s murder of its citizens.

Iranian state TV said on Wednesday that 3,117 people have been killed since December 27. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also issued a threat to the United States that the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack.”

“Unlike the restraint Iran showed in June 2025, our powerful armed forces have no qualms about firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed attack,” Araghchi wrote, referring to the 12-day war launched by Israel on Iran in June. “This isn’t a threat, but a reality I feel I need to convey explicitly, because as a diplomat and a veteran, I abhor war,” Araghchi said. “An all-out confrontation will certainly be ferocious and drag on far, far longer than the fantasy timelines that Israel and its proxies are trying to peddle to the White House. It will certainly engulf the wider region and have an impact on ordinary people around the globe.”

While speaking to reporters on Air Force One from Davos, Switzerland, Trump gave an update on Iran, telling reporters, “We have a lot of ships going that direction, just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction. And we’ll see what happens.”

On Thursday President Trump announced that the US has ships going in that direction to Iran.

Trump also saved the lives of 837 Iranian men who were scheduled to be hanged by the regime.

President Trump: We’re watching Iran. We have a lot of ships going that direction, just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction, and we’ll see what happens. We have a big force going toward Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen, but we’re watching them very closely. I saw 837 hangings on Thursday. They would have been dead. Every one of them would have been This is like from a thousand years ago. This is an ancient culture. Very smart people, by the way, but it’s an ancient culture. 837, mostly young men were going to be on Thursday. And I said, If you hang those people, you’re going to be hit harder than you’ve ever been hit. It’ll make what we did to your Iran nuclear look like peanuts. And an hour before this horrible thing was going to take place, they canceled it. And they actually said they canceled it. They didn’t postpone it. They canceled it. So that was a good sign. But we have an armada. We have a massive fleet heading in that direction. And maybe we won’t have to use it. We’ll see.

Via 47 Rapid Response.

.@POTUS: "We're watching Iran. We have a lot of ships going that direction just in case… We have a massive fleet heading in that direction, and maybe we won't have to use it. We'll see." pic.twitter.com/eL0sRyJb6u

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 23, 2026

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