I am starting to believe that POTUS directed PM Abe to tell Khomeini to attack the ships and shoot down the drones so he could expose the warhawks (DS) and give Iran plausible reasons to say sorry and come to the "bargaining" table on the auspice that a renegade section of the IRGC shot down the drone.
T - 4 months until we witness a HVT in the Iranian Government executed for treason.