Reporting from Washington, DC, United States
We’ll probably find out if they start hearing explosions in and around Iran that the US has decided to take that level of action.
What is clear in the last couple of hours is that it was a Shahed one-way attack drone that downed the helicopter. That would certainly suggest to the Americans, I suspect, that this wasn’t some accident.
This was deliberate targeting, no matter what Iran’s deputy foreign minister says.
Therefore, Trump, given what he’s put out on social media in the last couple of hours, will feel an obligation to respond.