22-06-2019 00:45 via news.yahoo.com

After calling off strikes on Iran, Trump suggests patience

President Donald Trump said Friday he abruptly called off the swiftly planned military strikes on Iran because the likely deaths of 150 Iranians would have been so out of proportion to the shootdown of an unmanned American surveillance drone."I am in no hurry," he wrote on Twitter, adding that increasingly severe sanctions meant to push Iran to the nuclear negotiating table are "biting" the Iranian economy.The aborted attack was a stark reminder of the potential for the escalating tensions of th
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