Tensions continue to run high between the United States and Iran after President Trump announced a fresh round of sanctions and reports surfaced that the United States had targeted Iran with a cyber-attack.
The escalating conflict began earlier this month when the United States accused Iran of attacking two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman and Iran announced they would ratchet up their low-enriched uranium production. By increasing uranium production, Iran violated the 2015 nuclear agreement signed by President Obama along with leaders from Russia, France, China, Germany, and the United Kingdom. President Trump pulled the United States out of the deal in 2017.
The conflict came within hours of violence after Iran shot down one of the United States’ unmanned drones, CNN reports. Iran claims the drone was in Iranian airspace, but the U.S. said the drone was over international waters. President Trump called off a planned retaliatory missile strike after he learned that as many as 150 people could have been killed.
President Trump explained his reasoning in an interview with Meet the Press. He said, “I thought about it for a second, I said, they shot down an unmanned drone, a plane, whatever you want to call it, and here we are sitting with 150 dead people,” CBN News reports.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that President Trump approved a…
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