President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea spooked oil markets amid heightened tensions between the two countries.

"We are negotiating with them right now” and "they’d like to do something,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. "They had a chance to do something a while ago and it didn’t work out, and we did Midnight Hammer,” he said, referring to the June U.S. military strike in Iran.

Earlier Tuesday, a U.S. F-35C warplane shot down a drone in self-defense as the unmanned aircraft "aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier with "unclear intent,” U.S. Central Command said in a statement. The command said no American service members were harmed and no U.S. equipment was damaged.

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