{"id":694668,"date":"2026-06-10T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694668\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:43:08","slug":"u-s-army-helicopter-was-downed-by-iran-near-strait-of-hormuz-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/694668\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army helicopter was downed by Iran near Strait of Hormuz, Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"UHNLOWEJCZDM3DQHOC4JOVMCH4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The U.S. military launched a new round of strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening, hours after President Donald Trump said doing so would be necessary because Iranian forces downed a U.S. Army helicopter.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TOIYFPTVCNEMPIHM6OH7GZQDOQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">U.S. military officials said in a statement that it had completed \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d at Trump\u2019s direction in response to the downing of the helicopter, hitting Iranian air-defense sites, ground-control stations, and surveillance radar near the Strait of Hormuz, the waterway through which about 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil flows from the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. military launched a new round of strikes on Iran on Tuesday evening, hours after President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-694668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694668","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=694668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}