Trump invites congressional leaders to White House to discuss Iran after Revolutionary Guard shoots

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Source: Washington Post

Middle East
Trump invites congressional leaders to White House to discuss Iran after Revolutionary Guard shoots down U.S. drone

By Erin Cunningham, Middle East reporter covering Iran, Turkey, Syria and the wider region; and Dan Lamothe
June 20 at 1:18 PM
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Speaking at a White House meeting with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump added that the drone was over international waters and that everything has been “scientifically documented.” Asked about a possible response, he was noncommittal, saying, “Let’s see what happens.” But he also said: “This is a new wrinkle. This is a new fly in the ointment — what happened, shooting down the drone — and this country will not stand for it.”

Trudeau said he was “very concerned” about the matter and expressed a desire to work with the international community to resolve it.

The White House invited a bipartisan group of top congressional leaders to a meeting Thursday afternoon on Iran. Among those expected to attend were Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate intelligence and armed services committees.
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Lamothe reported from Washington. Missy Ryan, Anne Gearan and William Branigin in Washington contributed to this report.

Erin Cunningham is an Istanbul-based correspondent for The Washington Post, covering conflict and political turmoil across the Middle East. She previously was a correspondent at the paper's bureau in Cairo, and has reported on wars in Afghanistan, Gaza, Libya and Iraq. Follow https://twitter.com/erinmcunningham

Dan Lamothe joined The Washington Post in 2014 to cover the U.S. military and the Pentagon. He has written about the Armed Forces for more than a decade, traveling extensively, embedding with each service and covering combat in Afghanistan numerous times. Follow https://twitter.com/danlamothe

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/iran-shoots-down-us-naval-drone-in-persian-gulf-region-officials/2019/06/20/88f6dc52-9328-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html

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[Zoonart]

1. Thus cant be good.

[riversedge]

3. maybe trump will serve them McDonnalds cookies??? But in all seriousness, seems it is Lindsey

Graham who is being the war dog.

[Iliyah]

2. Well there you have it . . .

War on Iran. Why? Number one - Oil; number two just because. I think Iran may have back up, China for sure. Putin maybe.

[underpants]

4. Hissy fit or he just going to drone on and on and on?

[stillcool]

5. public relations..

probably get some good pictures, and a few sound bytes, if Donald can keep his sh*t together.

[Nevermypresident]

6. Bolton is elated.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

7. His base has to be flipping the F out

They constantly brag how tough doofus is. His show today has to have their marble brains reeling. Anyone braved the darkside to see what the chatter is?

[StTimofEdenRoc]

8. With lying Trump in office, who do I believe? My government or Iran?

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!”

[Jopin Klobe]

9. To the God damned war mongers ...

... property crimes are not capital offenses ...

... REPEAT: property crimes are not capital offenses ...

... especially when you're lying to get this country into yet another useless, horrible God damned war ...

... especially when you want to murder thousands of innocent civilians for your perverted, self-centered, craven, so-called "reality" ...

[Corgigal]

10. "Let's see what happens "

is not how a president talks to their citizens. It's how a mom might push back a bit on a child when entering a grocery store.

[Tiggeroshii]

11. Why are they treating burning oil tankers and shot down drones like people were killed?

The United States literally shot down an Iranian passenger plane in Iranian air space in 1988 killing 275 people including about 60 children -and they didn't even apologize for it. Now suddenly a burning oil tanker and a broken robot are justifications for an all out war?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/10/16/the-forgotten-story-of-iran-air-flight-655/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5e3a3a4b19c3

[Bayard]

12. I said that in another thread

Its just idiotic to go to war over machines that can be replaced. Of course, tRump is an idiot. Good thing cooler heads prevailed for the moment.

[Tiggeroshii]

13. From what I'm seeing it almost seems like Trump is one of the cooler heads.

Err... I mean the hand that Putin has up his butt is, anyways.