speaking to reporters in New York<\/a> on Monday evening, said more details would be released Tuesday. <\/p>\n\u201cThe pilots are fine, nobody injured,\u201d he said.
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U.S. Central Command did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n
U.S. forces have continued to operate in and around the Strait of Hormuz even after a ceasefire in the war with Iran took effect in April. Their mission includes defending commercial and military vessels from attacks and holding a naval blockade on Iranian ports. <\/p>\n
For weeks, U.S. officials have signaled that a peace deal is near, but talks have been stalled by intermittent fighting. The war began in late February with strikes by the U.S. and Israel that killed a number of Iran\u2019s top leaders.<\/p>\n
Iran retaliated by attacking American military bases in the Middle East and choking off traffic in the strait, which is a major sea lane for oil shipments. <\/p>\n
Sunday marked one of the most serious days of fighting between Iran and Israel after tensions in Lebanon escalated.<\/p>\n
Iran insists Lebanon is party to the ceasefire deal and has rebuked Israel\u2019s continued campaign against Hezbollah, an Iran-backed paramilitary group in the country. The two countries agreed to pause their fighting after the U.S. intervened on Monday. <\/p>\n
Trump said Monday the U.S. is \u201ctwo or three days\u201d away from having a \u201cvery, very good, strong, powerful deal\u201d with Iran. <\/p>\n
The U.S. can resume bombing \u201cvery easily,\u201d but doing so would cause more casualties and likely further delay reopening the Strait of Hormuz, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we do the bombing, a lot of people are going to be killed,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWho wants to do that? I don\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter conducts low-level flight operations over mountain terrain, May 26, 2026. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[48756,48758,102,196,816,101,48757,75],"class_list":["post-152099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-strait-of-hormuz","tag-ah-64-apache-helicopter","tag-apache-crash","tag-hormuz","tag-iran-war","tag-middle-east-conflict","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-us-army-middle-east","tag-us-central-command"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116719454019318099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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