I trust POTUS. If he called for and then called off a strike he had a damned good reason.
There are a lot of possibilities. One is that Iran showed him drone wreckage inside their waters.
He seemed truly surprised by this as in there are obviously back channel talks going on.
It bothers me that Nervous Nancy is against attack though.
All I can say is that “if” this report is true he had a damned good reason.
In chess there’s so called harsh move results to error but if U.S. drone determined it was shootdown not above Iranian territory I’d expect retaliatory action. Long time ago an Iranian mine intended for commercial vessels passing through Straits of Hormuz damaged USS Samuel B. Roberts then came operation praying mantis almost wiped out the Iranian navy. Whatever it kinda complex we dunno how Iranian would retaliate what weapons they’re bragging, if Mr Trump would order to attack Iran it’d be massive and swift using air launch precision munitions.
Maybe President Trump discovered that Russian “advisers” in Iran used a Russian mobile launcher so send one of their surface-to-air missiles up to destroy the drone. I think this is a trap. It spells out a very dicey situation and requires a well-planned response. In short, Russia is involved in this. In fact, China is involved too.