Donald Trump, US president, says
he called off the airstrike against three Iranian targets with 10 minutes to
spare after learning that it might kill as many as 150 people.
In a series of tweets on Friday,
Trump accused the western Asian country of shooting down an unmanned drone
flying in international waters on Monday.
He said military leaders met him
about half an hour before the planned strike and he requested to know “how many
people would be killed?”
Trump explained that the response
would not have been “proportionate to shooting down of a US spy drone off the Iranian
coast.
“On Monday they [Iran] shot down
an unmanned drone flying in International Waters. We were cocked & loaded
to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die.
150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I
stopped it, not,” he wrote.
“….proportionate to shooting down
an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to
go, by far the best in the world. Sanctions are biting & more added last
night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not
against the WORLD!”
It remains unclear what Trump was
referring to when he said new “sanctions are biting and more added on Thursday
night.”
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