Trump: US Navy Shot Down Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz

• What a coincidence: just as Rand Paul (sent by Trump) is on his way to Iran for peace talks, someone escalates tension.
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• Trump: US Navy Shot Down Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz
  by https://www.presstv.com/
  President Donald Trump says that a US ship has shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Trump said that the USS Boxer fired on the drone Thursday, four weeks after Iran shot down a US surveillance drone flying over Iranian waters near the Strait of Hormuz. “The Boxer took defensive action against an Iranian drone, which had closed into a near distance, approximately 1000 yards, ignoring multiple calls to stand down threatening safety of ship and ship’s crew,” he said at the White House on the same day.
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  The president added that Iran’s drone “was immediately destroyed.” The Pentagon claimed the Iranian drone was within a “threatening range” of the US ship. “At approximately 10 am local time, the amphibious ship USS Boxer was in international waters conducting a planned inbound transit of the Strait of Hormuz,” chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement. “A fixed wing unmanned aerial system (UAS) approached Boxer and closed within a threatening range. The ship took defensive action against the UAS to ensure the safety of the ship and its crew.”
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  Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he was not aware of any downing of an Iranian drone. “We have no information about losing a drone today,” Zarif told reporters at the United Nations before a meeting with Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Shortly after Trump’s claim, Zarif re-tweeted a map originally posted on June 22 that shows the borders of Iran and the United States.
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