Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday shared what he called “evidence” of another U.S. spy drone that violated Iranian airspace on May 26.
In a Twitter post that depicted a flight route showing a U.S.-made MQ9 Reaper “encraoching on Iranian territory”, Zarif stated that a war had been imminent.
"Prudence prevented it, but economic terrorism brings tension," Zarif said.
On Thursday, an Iranian missile destroyed a U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone, an incident that Washington said happened in international airspace. Trump later said he had called off a military strike to retaliate because it could have killed 150 people.
Tehran repeated on Saturday that the drone was shot down over its territory and said it would respond firmly to any U.S. threat.
Speaking in Washington on Saturday before heading to the U.S. presidential retreat at
Camp David, Trump indicated the government was taking a diplomatic path to put pressure on Tehran by moving to impose new sanctions.
Military action was "always on the table," the president said, but he added that he was open to quickly reaching a deal with Iran that he said would bolster the country's flagging economy.
"We will call it 'Let's make Iran great again,'" Trump said.
He later wrote on Twitter from Camp David: "We are putting major additional Sanctions on Iran on Monday. I look forward to the day that Sanctions come off Iran, and they become a productive and prosperous nation again."
