From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Tim Desher, and this is Heritage Explains. As Heritage explains.

It's been a hectic two weeks in Iran.

Here's a short recap.

Two oil tankers attacked early this morning in the Gulf of Oman, with one actually on fire. This comes during heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

Just moments ago, the Pentagon authorized an additional 1,000 American troops to the Middle East

in response to growing concerns over Iran, where tensions have been quickly mounting.

Just today, Iran moved to increase uranium enrichment levels

and break the stockpile limits set by the 2015 Obama nuclear deal within the next 10 days.

The threat comes on the heels of last week's oil tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman,

which U.S. says Iran is clearly behind.

And Iran today, after Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. Air Force drone that it says violated Iranian airspace early this morning.

Iran time. The U.S. insists this drone was flying in international airspace, calling the incident, quote, an unprovoked attack.

Now, this all happened within a week's time.

And while many of the talking heads on TV were debating what the U.S. response would be,

President Trump cleared the air.

Sort of.

In the now famous tweet, he said, quote, on Monday, they shot down an unmanned drone flying in international waters. We were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night on three

different sites when I asked, how many will die? 150 people, sir, was the answer from a general.

Ten minutes before the strike, I stopped it, not proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone, end quote.

And of course, with that, the talking heads on cable news had a field day.

I think part of the problem here is that Donald Trump comes from the world of TV where

nothing is real, nothing has actual consequences.

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