Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first time the Islamic Republic directly attacked the American military amid tensions over Tehran’s unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran said the drone “violated” its territorial airspace, while the U.S. called the missile fire “an unprovoked attack” in international airspace over the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf and President Donald Trump tweeted that “Iran made a very big mistake!”
David Harsanyi is the Senior Editor for TheFederalist.com & author of First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today. He joined Dan and Amy with reaction to the situation with Iran, and also the 2020 Presidential election: