Israel National News reports: “US President Donald Trump again issued a stark warning to Iran on Thursday, during an in‑flight briefing with reporters on his return from Davos to Washington, describing a significant US military buildup in the region.

‘We have a lot of ships going in that direction, just in case. We have a big flotilla going in that direction. And we’ll see what happens,’ Trump said. ‘We have a big force going toward Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen, but we’re watching them very closely.’

Trump again said that he prevented hundreds of executions in Iran last week. ‘I stopped 837 hangings [last] Thursday. They would have been dead. Every one of them would have been hung. This is like from a thousand years ago,’ he said…”