By — Associated Press Associated Press Leave a comment 0comments Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-strike-on-iran-would-have-been-a-disproportionate-response Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Trump says strike on Iran would have been a disproportionate response Politics Jun 21, 2019 1:45 PM EDT President Donald Trump says he called off a planned retaliatory strike on Iran after deciding the likely death toll on the ground wouldn’t be “proportionate” to the shoot down of a U.S. drone. Trump tells NBC News in an interview Friday that he was informed that about 150 Iranians would be killed by the strikes. Trump says: “I didn’t like it. I didn’t think it was proportionate.” The president offered a similar explanation on Twitter earlier Friday. The president also says he never gave a final order for the operation, and that U.S. military airplanes were not yet in the air but that they would have been “pretty soon.” READ MORE: Trump says U.S. was ‘cocked and loaded’ to strike Iran By — Associated Press Associated Press
President Donald Trump says he called off a planned retaliatory strike on Iran after deciding the likely death toll on the ground wouldn’t be “proportionate” to the shoot down of a U.S. drone. Trump tells NBC News in an interview Friday that he was informed that about 150 Iranians would be killed by the strikes. Trump says: “I didn’t like it. I didn’t think it was proportionate.” The president offered a similar explanation on Twitter earlier Friday. The president also says he never gave a final order for the operation, and that U.S. military airplanes were not yet in the air but that they would have been “pretty soon.” READ MORE: Trump says U.S. was ‘cocked and loaded’ to strike Iran