Trump on Iran tensions: 'We want to be proportionate'
and he would discuss tensions between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic at Camp David this weekend.
"It's always on the table until we get this solved," he said. "We have a tremendously powerful military force in that area." Iran shot down a U.S. military surveillance drone with a surface-to-air missile, one week after two oil tankers were rocked by explosions in the Gulf of Oman near the Strait of Hormuz, the world's busiest sea lane for oil shipments.
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