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In. >> reporter: good morning. the pentagon is calling this an unprovoked attack in international airspace. it may be an indication, another indication of iran's improvement in its surface-to-air missile targeting and precision capabilities, so that is going to be something very worrisome that iran would have this capability. this drone's mission is intelligence gathering, and clearly it is part of the u.s. effort to keep its eyes and ears on iran right now to see if they're moving their forces around, to see what they may be up to. this is drone that can stay up in the air for some 30 hours a...

Deal with any form of aggression. he went on to say this is the way the iranian nation deals with its enemies. tensions still flaring up here after the attacks on the tankers. after the tanker attacks, the u.s. said the iranians also tried to fire at a u.s. drone at this point in time. this general also saying once again iran does not want any sort of war, but he's also saying iran is very much prepared for war, alisyn. >> please stand by for us and bring us the latest from tehran as soon as you have it. this action comes just after president trump is down played the threat from iran. joe john...

Drone had gone to the persian gulf area and made a turn towards iranian airspace and shot down by iranian airspace missiles going into their airspace. it was quite interesting to see because the revolution guard corps, erica, which is iran's most elite military unit and the unit that shot this drone down. they came out very quickly and said this is something that they will absolutely react to if it happens again. they also said that iran does not want war. but they said that iran is absolutely prepared for war at this point in time. those are statements that we've been hearing from the iranian...

Iranian context. our hardliners are empowering their hardliners and vice-versa. and think that's what you've seen play out in recent days. let's start with john bolton and mike pompeo the secretary of state and national security adviser who last year were -- helped to orchestrate the pullout of the united states from the iran deal. they promised that this campaign of maximum pressure that would lead to this so-called better deal. and i think in some ways the results speak for themselves. the united states not iran is now more isolated. iran is now more emboldened. it is far from coward. iran's...

To pay. this administration is getting ready if that happens. >> hopefully there is planning taking place behind the scenes. we have a hornet's nest. they know president trump has a tendency to be unpredictable. it could be an advantage or disadvantage in this case. we don't know. hopefully there is strategic planning that is taking place behind the scenes and not a situation where the president is going to have -- >> sandra: white house director of trade, peter navarro involved in the creation and construction of these sanctions on iran to some extent said the sanctions are working on iran. h...