Trump says Iran was responsible for downing American helicopter and that US must respond
Trump said the U.S. must respond after Iran was blamed for the crash, and two aviators were rescued by an unmanned boat.
- President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that Iran shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz overnight, warning on Truth Social that "the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack."
- The helicopter's two-person crew was successfully recovered uninjured in what officials described as a historic milestone—the first-ever combat search and rescue operation successfully completed by an autonomous military sea drone.
- The incident severely jeopardizes fragile, back-channel peace negotiations being brokered between Washington and Tehran, which aim to lift a grueling naval blockade and reopen the strategic, oil-rich shipping waterway.
- The flare-up caps 48 hours of intense regional volatility, arriving just after Trump successfully pressured Israel and Iran into pausing a separate, massive weekend missile exchange that threatened to collapse their pre-existing April ceasefire.
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Yesterday, The New York Times already reported that the army helicopter had crashed. Now the president says that the aircraft was shot down by Iran.
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U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that there will be reprisals against Iran for having shot down an American helicopter in the Strait of Ormuz, despite the fact that the attack left no victims. “I have just been informed by our Armed Forces that last night the Iranians shot down one of our high-tech Apache helicopters while patrolling the Strait of Ormuz,” Trump explained on his Truth Social network. “Two pilots were involved, both s…
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