President Trump said in a string of tweets that the reason he scrapped planned military strikes against Iran was because he learned that dozens of Iranians would die.

The announcement came the day after a U.S. drone was shot down over the Strait of Hormuz. Trump confirmed reports that plans were in place to retaliate and said he stopped the attacks just minutes before they were to occur. He also praised U.S. sanctions against Iran and criticized the scrapped nuclear deal brokered under former President Barack Obama.