唐纳德·特朗普总统周四表示，一艘美国军舰在霍尔木兹海峡击落了一架伊朗无人驾驶飞机，此前无人驾驶飞机无视多次警告。
特朗普周四表示黄蜂-级两栖攻击舰美国海军鲍克瑟号“对一架伊朗无人驾驶飞机采取了防御行动，这架飞机已经接近了一个非常近的距离，大约1000码，无视多次撤退的呼吁，威胁到船只和船员的安全。”
他说，“无人驾驶飞机立即被摧毁”，这将是伊朗一个月前击落一架美国间谍无人驾驶飞机并被美国指控骚扰油轮的地区发生的最新一起爆炸事件。
特朗普说:“这是伊朗针对在国际水域作业的船只采取的众多挑衅性敌对行动中的最新一次。美国保留保卫我们的人员、设施和利益的权利，并呼吁所有国家谴责伊朗试图对全球航行自由和全球商业进行争议。”。
“我还呼吁所有国家在船只通过海峡时保护船只，并在未来与我们合作，”他补充说。
1月29日，在一次实弹导弹演习中，一枚RIM-7P导弹从北约海雀导弹发射器发射到两栖攻击舰鲍克瑟号的尾帆上。唐纳德·特朗普总统7月18日说，在革命卫队在霍尔木兹海峡击落一架美国海军无人驾驶飞机大约一个月后，美国拳击手号在霍尔木兹海峡击落了一架伊朗无人驾驶飞机。大众传播专家水手扎卡里·贝伦德/美国海军
消息传出的同一天，伊朗外交部长穆罕默德贾瓦德扎里夫(Mohammad Javad Zarif)提出了一项提议，似乎是要缓和当前的危机，这场危机源于特朗普去年决定放弃2015年核协议，并对伊斯兰共和国实施严格制裁。尽管德黑兰拒绝在制裁解除前与华盛顿对话，扎里夫暗示，伊朗愿意提前批准国际原子能机构的附加议定书，扩大对伊朗核计划的国际检查。
扎里夫周四表示:“如果特朗普想要更多，我们可以批准附加议定书，他可以解除他设定的制裁。”卫报。“他说过他会向国会采取任何措施——好吧。解除制裁，你将在2023年之前获得附加议定书。”
这位高级外交官表示，这将是“一个实质性的举措”，并暗示“还有其他实质性的举措可以做。”然而，他强调说，伊朗对仅仅是“照片操作”或“有大签名的两页文件”不感兴趣
扎里夫在纽约告诉记者，他“没有关于今天丢失无人机的信息”然而，在一个明显的回应中，他只是发了一张照片，强调美国和伊朗的边界，以此“提醒”美国在其领土之外的行动有多远，以及离伊朗有多近。
中国、欧盟、法国、德国、俄罗斯和英国也签署了2015年协议，所有这些国家仍然支持该协议，并呼吁双方保持克制。这些国家还呼吁美国重返该协议，并呼吁伊朗停止其最近超出限制水平的铀浓缩活动，这是对欧洲未能实现贸易关系正常化的回应。
美国尚未公开回应扎里夫的最新提议，但此前曾要求伊朗做出一些重大让步，如停止对激进组织的支持，并在制裁解除前关闭其弹道导弹计划。与此同时，波斯湾的紧张局势继续恶化，美国指责伊朗在5月和上个月对途经附近的阿曼湾的商船和革命卫队发动了两系列袭击干掉了一架美国海军间谍无人机在同一个地区飞行。
伊朗声称无人驾驶飞机飞入其领空，并否认参与骚扰油轮，包括五角大楼最近声称革命卫队试图扣押一艘英国船只，以报复英国本月早些时候在直布罗陀抓获一艘试图向叙利亚运输石油的伊朗超级油轮，这显然违反了欧盟的制裁。伊朗最高领导人阿亚图拉·阿里·哈梅内伊指责伦敦“海盗行为”，并发誓要做出回应。
美国也在调查有关伊朗参与周六总部设在阿联酋、悬挂巴拿马国旗的小型船只失踪的报道Riah革命卫队周四早些时候确认他们被拘留，据称是因为试图走私石油。
更新(2019年7月18日下午4:40)这篇文章已经更新，包括伊朗外交部长穆罕默德贾瓦德扎里夫(Mohammad Javad Zarif)发布的一条推文，这显然是对美国海军在霍尔木兹海峡击落一架伊朗无人驾驶飞机的报道的回应。
DONALD TRUMP SAYS U.S. SHOT DOWN IRAN DRONE JUST AS NEW TALKS OFFER EMERGES
President Donald Trump said Thursday that a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz after it ignored repeated warnings.
Trump said Thursday that Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer "took defensive action against an Iranian drone which had closed into a very near distance, approximately 1000 yards, ignoring multiple calls to stand down and was threatening the safety of the ship and the ship's crew."
He said "the drone was immediately destroyed" in what would be the latest flare-up in a region where Iran has downed a U.S. spy drone almost exactly a month ago and has been accused by the U.S. of harassing oil tankers.
"This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels operating in the international waters the United States reserves right to defend our personnel, our facilities and interests and calls upon all nations to condemn Iran's attempts to dispute global freedom of navigation and global commerce," Trump said.
"I also call on all nations to protect their ships as they go through the strait and to work with us in the future," he added.
ARIM-7P missile is fired from a NATO Sea Sparrow missile launcher on the fantail of amphibious assault ship USS Boxer during a live-fire missile exercise, January 29. President Donald Trump said July 18 that the USS Boxer shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz about a month after the Revolutionary Guards downed a U.S. Navy drone nearby.MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST SEAMAN ZACHARY D. BEHREND/U.S. NAVY
The news came the same day that Iranian Foreign Mohammad Javad Zarif made what appeared to be an offer to de-escalate the ongoing crisis stemming from Trump's decision last year to abandon a 2015 nuclear deal and impose strict sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Though Tehran has refused to talk with Washington until the sanctions were lifted, Zarif suggested his country would be willing to ratify the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency ahead of schedule, expanding international inspections of Iran's nuclear program.
"If Trump wants more for more, we can ratify the Additional Protocol and he can lift the sanctions he set," Zarif said Thursday, according to The Guardian. "He has said that he will take any measure to Congress – fine. Lift the sanctions and you'll have the Additional Protocol sooner than 2023."
The top diplomat said this would be "a substantial move" and suggested there "there are other substantial moves that can be made." He emphasized, however, that Iran was not interested in a mere "photo op" or "a two-page document with a big signature."
Zarif, who is in New York, told reporters that he had "no information about having lost a drone today." In an apparent response, however, he then simply tweeted a photo highlighting the borders of the U.S. and Iran as a "Reminder" of how far away the U.S. was operating outside its own territory, and how close it was to Iran's.
The 2015 deal was also signed by China, the European Union, France, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom, all of whom still support the agreement and have called for restraint on both sides. These countries have also appealed to the U.S. to return to the agreement and for Iran to halt its recent enrichment of uranium beyond restricted levels, a response to Europe's failure to normalize trade ties
The U.S. has yet to publicly respond to Zarif's latest offer, but has previously demanded that Iran make a number of major concessions such as ending support for militant groups and shuttering its ballistic missile program before sanctions could be lifted. Meanwhile, Persian Gulf tensions have continued to worsen as the U.S. blamed Iran for two series of attacks May and last month on commercial vessels traveling through the nearby Gulf of Oman and the Revolutionary Guards took out a U.S. Navy spy drone flying in the same region.
