Iran Press/ America: US President Donald Trump said Friday that there were no pre-conditions for talks with Tehran adding: "I don't want war with Iran, but if it comes there will be obliteration like you've never seen before."
"But I'm not looking to do that," the US president added in an interview with NBC.
Trump also discussed the decision-making process that led him to halt strikes on Iran on Thursday night, saying that he hadn't given final approval to any attack and adding that no planes were in the air.
Asked if planes were in the air, the president responded, "No, but they would have been pretty soon, and things would have happened to a point where you would not turn back, you could not turn back."
"Nothing was greenlighted until the very end because things change," Trump said during the interview.
Earlier, US president tweeted that he was 'cocked and loaded' to strike several targets in Iran but deemed the loss of life would be disproportionate to the downing of an unmanned US drone.
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The Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) had announced in a statement early Thursday that the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e-Mobarak region near the southern port city of Jask after the aircraft violated Iran's airspace.
An unnamed source with knowledge about the case said on Thursday that Iran in a letter to the United Nations will complain against the violation of its airspace and territory by US surveillance drone.
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Also in an emergency phone call with Swiss envoy, whose country represents US interests in the Islamic Republic, Iran voiced its strong protest against the incursion of an American spy drone into Iranian airspace, and invited the envoy to visit the Foreign Ministry on Friday.
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