Close Call with Iran
Posted on AllSides June 24th, 2019
On Thursday, a US official stated that “a U.S. military drone has been shot down in international airspace over the Strait of Hormuz by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.” (Reuters)
On Friday, “President Donald Trump said [that] 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.” (AP News)
Both sides agree that calling off the strikes was the right decision:
“War is sometimes necessary; this is...