Trump invites congressional leaders to White House to discuss Iran after Revolutionary Guard shoots down U.S. drone
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Iran shot down a U.S. naval surveillance drone with the wingspan of an airliner near the Strait of Hormuz early Thursday, escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf region and prompting the White House to call an emergency meeting with top congressional leaders.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that it targeted the drone — which it identified as an RQ-4 Global Hawk — inside Iranian airspace over the southern province of Hormozgan, next to the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
The U.S. Central Command confirmed the incident Thursday but denied that the aircraft was in Iranian airspace.
“Iran made a very big mistake!” President Trump tweeted Thursday in his first public comment on the incident. He later told reporters, “I have a feeling . . . that it was a mistake made by somebody” who, he suggested, was acting without orders from Iran’s leadership.
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