IRAN/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “President Donald Trump warned Thursday [6-20-19] that Iran ‘made a very big mistake’ after its military claimed responsibility for shooting down an American drone, but appeared to suggest the incident would not immediately result in an armed conflict following a week of steadily escalating tensions…Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claimed it destroyed the drone because it violated Iranian airspace, and Gen. Hossein Salami, the Guard’s commander, said in a televised address Thursday that ‘we are fully ready for war,’ according to the AP. But the U.S. military has asserted that the unmanned aircraft was taken down in ‘an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset’ over international airspace above the Strait of Hormuz.”
–Quint Forgey, Burgess Everett, Eliana Johnson and Conner O’Brien, “Trump warns that Iran ‘made a very big mistake’,” Politico, June 20, 2019 2:00 pm