{"id":491561,"date":"2026-06-10T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491561\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:13:09","slug":"live-us-striking-iran-in-response-to-downing-of-helicopter-military-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/491561\/","title":{"rendered":"Live: US striking Iran in response to downing of helicopter, military says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US launches retaliatory strikes on Iran, military sayspublished at 23:10 BST 9 June<\/p>\n<p>23:10 BST 9 June<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cze9359gglyo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched strikes<\/a> on Iran after President Donald Trump accused the country of shooting down a US helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American forces began strikes at 17:00 EST (22:00 BST) on Tuesday in response to the helicopter downing, US Central Command (Centcom) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,&#8221; Centcom said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The two crew members of the downed US Apache helicopter were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy0l44ex5wo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rescued by an American sea drone<\/a>, Centcom said earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured,&#8221; Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier today. &#8220;Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US launches retaliatory strikes on Iran, military sayspublished at 23:10 BST 9 June 23:10 BST 9 June The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-491561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}