{"id":693859,"date":"2026-06-09T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693859\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:03:08","slug":"live-updates-trump-says-iran-was-responsible-for-downing-of-us-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693859\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Trump says Iran was responsible for downing of US helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have a good chance\u201d of signing a deal in \u201ctwo or three days,\u201d Trump said Monday night, without providing any detailed reason for new optimism. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly predicted that a deal is near over the two months since the U.S. and Iran agreed to an initial ceasefire. Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, however, said Monday that Trump\u2019s remarks have \u201ccontradicted the agreed-upon sections, showing that (the U.S. is) neither seeking a ceasefire nor dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal,\u201d the president said. \u201cIf we go and bomb \u2014 which we could do very easily if we want, and we spend another two or three weeks bombing \u2014 they\u2019ll have nothing left whatsoever. But you won\u2019t have the strait open for months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIf we do the bombing, you know, a lot of people are going to be killed. Who wants to do that? I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a good chance\u201d of signing a deal in \u201ctwo or three days,\u201d Trump said Monday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1340,12,3138,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-693859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}