to do a better job of getting the revolutionary guards under control. nevertheless, they ve tried it before and they haven t been very, very successful. that means that there s continuous danger in the region from this sort of thing happening again and for it to spill over into something wider. the united states i think is not going to make an effort to make a direct attack on the country of iran. but there will be an indirect message that will be sent to iran for them to try to get these people under control. it sounds like i m making the assumption that tehran did not issue the order to strike. we do not know what their rules of engagement were. but in the past they ve demonstrated the rules of engagement are not as structured as ours are, andrea.
obviously we re very concerned about the asing lags by iran recently. we have significant presence in the area including leading the nato mission in bagdad and iraq. we look forward to discussing with our closest ally the perspectives on this and how we can move forward as an international community. will you ask china to release the canadians? well, i don t know that he s trying to meet are you trying to get a meet? we ve got a lot of things to discuss. otherwise i ll represent him well. we have a meeting set up with president xi. it s on the big transaction we re talking about and negotiating. our peak are actually speaking now. we ll see what happens with that. anything i can do to help canada,ly canada i will be doing. do you plan to bring it up
what iran seems to be doing here is both through proxies and through the iranian revolutionary guard corps, taking these provocations and attacks right up to the line where it would potentially warrant a u.s. military response. look at the at statacks against saudi arabia, united states allies, commercial shipping like the tankers in the gulf of oman last week. i went to one of the tankers, the courageous, and saw the blast holes in the side of it up close. i can tell you that the blast in it, it barely made it was a large hole but it was not going to sink that vessel. it seems as if these provocations and attacks by iran are to send a message just as much as the u.s. military deployments are to send a message of deterrence. courtney kube, so interesting. i want to point out, also, for everyone that as the president was walking in with prime minister trudeau, there was a
welker. we can see the president has said trump has called the shooting a new fly in the ointment. he said he does not feel his administration is pushing him towards conflict and in some cases it s just the opposite, that it could have been someone who was loose and stupid. we just reported that. as to whether he s open to talking with iran, he said let s see what happens. he said it would have made a big difference if there was a person inside. kristen? i think it s significant, an three yeah, you hear the president saying it would have made a big difference if this drone had been manned. that sort of underscores part of where we began this conversation which is that secretary of state mike pompeo has indicated that any military strike would first require someone on the u.s. side to be attacked, to be harmed. so you have the president essentially underscoring the fact that this was an unmanned
states says it was in international airspace. iran says it drafted into iranian airspace. what this could be is an issue that frequently comes up here that iran believes it controls more area in the air and at sea in the strait of hormuz outside the 12 nautical mile line that most of the international community recognizes and international airspace and waterways. you mentioned this comes at a time when the tensions here are very high between the united states and iran. this shootdown of this drone is the first direct time in this tension that began in early may where, in fact, the iranian military, the revolutionary guard core acknowledges a direct attack on the u.s. military. there have been three times in recent days where u.s. drones have been targeted, one time in early june was by houthi rebels, they shot down a u.s. drone. another time what is believed to be an iranian guard core ship