The US military launched airstrikes and Iran retaliated Wednesday following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that US President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic. Iran launched attacks in Bahrain and Kuwait, which both sounded alerts and fired air defenses in response. Iran also said it targeted an air base in Jordan hosting US forces, which was not immediately acknowledged either by American or Jordanian officials.
The US military announced that it has begun strikes against Iran following the crash of a US Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman. His remarks threw into deeper uncertainty the prospects for a truce announced on April 8 in the war in the Gulf. On Monday, Israel and Iran said they would halt attacks on each other after an appeal by Trump to end their first direct exchanges of fire since April, but Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if Israel continued to attack its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the military will not leave attacks or threats unanswered. “Despite its defeats on the battlefield, the US opted to test our determination. Our Powerful Armed Forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered.
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Leave our region if you want to be safe,” Araghchi posted on X after the US attacks, which President Donald Trump described as retaliation for the downed helicopter. Monday’s flare-up added further strain to efforts to broker a peace deal to end the wider Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. In a first, a US Navy surface drone found and rescued the two crew members from the Apache attack helicopter that went down in waters near Oman’s coast, the US military told Reuters.
The US military’s Central Command said the AH-64 Apache went down at around 3am local time on Tuesday (2300 GMT on Monday). The drone that carried out the rescue was a US Navy Corsair, which manufacturer Saronic says on its website is a 24-foot (7.3-meter) autonomous surface vessel (ASV) capable of carrying up to 1,000 lbs (454 kg) over 1,000 nautical miles.
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