Despite calling off a military strike against Iran, the U.S. is still poised to hit Iran hard after weeks of mounting tensions between the two countries, President Trump said on Sunday.
Despite calling off a military strike against Iran, the U.S. is still poised to hit Iran hard after weeks of mounting tensions between the two countries, President Trump said on Sunday, in what appeared to be a coordinated effort by the administration to keep the pressure on Tehran.
On Friday, Trump said the U.S. military was"cocked & loaded" for a retaliatory strike after Iran shot down a U.S. military drone near its coast. The shootdown came after attacks on two tankers in the Gulf, which the administration has also blamed on Iran. The president said he canceled the authorized strikes at the last minute to avoid Iranian casualties.
Instead of military strikes, Trump announced plans to further impose “major” sanctions on Iran beginning Monday and asserted to Todd that he believes “they want to make a deal,” but there would be no preconditions for negotiations with Tehran. Then in April, Trump labeled the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group and in the following month announced the deployment a bomber task force and carrier strike group to the Middle East to send a “clear and unmistakable message" to Iran after “a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings.”
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