US President Donald Trump has vowed to retaliate after an American AH-64 Apache attack helicopter was shot down while conducting a patrol mission near the Strait of Hormuz, escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran amid an ongoing regional conflict.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Trump confirmed that the helicopter had gone down near the strategically vital waterway, which handles roughly one-fifth of the world’s crude oil shipments. He initially said the aircraft’s two pilots had been rescued and were unharmed.
Later, Trump directly accused Iran of bringing down the helicopter and promised a response, describing retaliation as a matter of necessity. As yet, US president did not provide further details on how or when Washington would respond.
The Apache attack helicopters have been among the aircraft used by US forces to enforce restrictions on Iranian maritime activity as part of broader efforts to pressure Tehran into accepting a peace agreement and restoring security in the region.
The incident comes amid renewed hostilities involving Iran and Israel, with both sides exchanging strikes despite an earlier ceasefire between Washington and Tehran. Iranian officials have accused the United States of bearing responsibility for recent Israeli military actions in the region.
The helicopter loss adds to a growing list of US aircraft destroyed since the conflict intensified earlier this year. Previous US disclosures acknowledged the loss of several aircraft, including transport planes, helicopters, a drone and an A-10 attack aircraft during operations linked to the conflict.
Despite the latest escalation, Trump maintained that negotiations with Iran were continuing and suggested a potential agreement could be reached within days. However, significant differences remain between the two sides. Tehran has rejected demands to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and continues to seek sanctions relief, the release of frozen assets and an end to Israeli military operations against Hezbollah before any final deal is concluded.
Iranian officials have said their objective remains ending the conflict while securing long-term stability, but have also expressed deep mistrust of the United States.
A deep mistrust of the United States is rich coming from the most depraved regime on the surface of the earth that torture then murder their own people for questioning their despotic rule.
More likely tortured then hung for being paid stooges for Israel.
The US, UK and Israels attempts at getting Iran under their thumb is failing.
How many Israelis, Americans, and gulf state countries people have killed from Iranian attacks since February 28? A couple of hundred maybe
How many Iranians, Palestinians and Lebanese people have been killed since Feb 28? 7000+
The projection in your statement is off the scale.
Zaggy, kudos to you for the rational response to such a tainted comment. You nailed it.
Trump has completely lost the plot. MAGA was specifically for NO WARS.
STOP THE WARS. LET ISRAEL FIGHT THEIR OWN WARS AND STOP USING US TAXPAYERS MONEY TO PAY FOR ISRAEL.
After initially supporting Trump , I am now disgusted by him.
True…look what he surrounds himself with who encourages his delusions and narcissism; the J3wi$h Lobby!
https://rumble.com/v71w7gy-occupied-2024-stew-peters-documentary.html?e9s=src_v1_s%2Csrc_v1_s_o&sci=434d261f-fa98-4251-96df-95b03d82507d
https://odysee.com/@nnabprowork:3/Max-Igan—Stew-Peters-Show—03-02-26:d
Iran has to stop the tit-for-tat fighting as noted in the video below…
https://www.youtube.com/live/pqdcVcGimf4
https://paulcraigroberts.org/trumps-sedition-act-for-israel/
The below is what Israel is imposing in the Middle East, and plans to do the same globally.
https://paulcraigroberts.org/the-noahide-laws/
https://www.unz.com/proberts/zionist-trump-is-no-peace-president/
https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/establishment-war-against-we-the-people-paul-craig-roberts/
A drone downing an Apache? Yeah right!
https://youtu.be/PFZb3MWFY4w?t=349
The world economy isn’t going to get any better without sufficient, reliable and inexpensive oil and fuel.
The destruction of NZ oil refinery was the dumbest thing ever. NZ isn’t using less oil. It just is paying a higher price. New Zealand needs to be self-sufficient.
Turning the country around must involve replacing that infrastructure at wartime speed.
In the next election, make the greens just as miserable as you are today. Vote them out of parliament.
Wartime speed: I get it and YOU nailed it, but also not how you meant it.
NZ will go into war-time speed, but in means of how the economy will look like in the coming few years.
It will be gnarly, to say the least.
But it won’t be all bad. The good part of what’s coming is that society will get rid of lies, grifters, parasites and bullsh*ticians.
Don’t worry Trump is playing 5D chess and defeating the City of London.
Snicker and snigger.
Hey, Tumb has ruined, together with his chess buddy satanyahu, the reputation of anything jsrael/jewish for decades to come. Maybe the world should be grateful for that champion 🤮
Oh dear, the bullying isn’t going too well this time around, is it? Not Venezuela, that’s for sure (not that I think the puppet government there will last long term-already doing exercises to evacuate the US embassy there aren’t we). No flying helicopters over Tehran, without a missile up the orifice. I hear too, Iran may now have nukes, compliments of Russia and China. That’s an even bigger fly in the ointment, eh Stumpy?
Still you can expect our globalists here to come and bow down, before the “mighty” US empire.
Bomb them back into the stone age I think is the term. Stop the ‘peace’ negotiations – these evil people should be beheaded as their brethren are doing around the planet. Why wait. The only good muslim is a dead . . .
Go back to the herald. Your discourse is discharge.
Oh dear this is what too much MSM gets you, if I’m not mistaken. Bombing NEVER works. Vietnam, Korea (the latter saw more bombs dropped then during WWII) are prominent examples. Wars are settled on the ground and the US simply does not have the weapons or the people to pull this off. Why do you think they used Ukraine as a proxy to fight Russia.
Agreed.
Trump is right to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, it’s a country who would use them rather a threat. Yes it’s deeply unpopular but necessary.
Why would dumb care?
Sry for troubling you with a question ’cause you seem unable to think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm2x6CVIXiE
it’s a country who would use them rather a threat
Then by your own logic the USA should relinquish all nuclear weapons. They are the only nation that actually used them during WWII, despite scientists on The Manhattan Project asking them not to be dropped on Japanese cities, filled with civilians but instead in bays as a warning of what would come, if they did not capitulate. During the Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy who is not the Saint he’s depicted as, had to talked out of using them against the Cubans and by extension, the Soviet Union.
Its worth mentioning too, the nuclear threat has repeatedly been used by the US in the past and in the current Iran crisis. In fact the only foil to WWIII is ironically, the measured proliferation of nuclear weapons, it would seem.
CLUELESS dumbarsed and dimwitted dipsh*ts living their sheltered daily lives protected-from-reality, imperiously and arrogantly prodding their latest-model apple keyboards, sipping their lattes, screeching for world war and genocide and destruction and death – then sauntering off with a strutting superior holier-than-thou swagger to their own pampered self-entitled protected day “at the office”…
lol, 👍, coarse as the toilet paper at the pub, dead-on as the dump hitting the bowl.
Unlikely to be a world war, Iran has put the war mongers in “check”.
Seems that the global elites have found a plan to crash the global economy everywhere then impose the cashless society. The plan appears to be to stop commerce by choking off the flow of oil
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/united-states-is-attacking-iran?catid=17&Itemid=101
Who is being fooled? Iran’s own money was misused to pay the ransom to Iran https://wanaen.com/foreign-media-claim-3-billion-in-iranian-assets-transferred-to-tehran/
The old era has ended, a new era has begun – to hold the USA+Israel accountable https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/09/770133/unified-resistance-front-iran-recasts-region-balance-power-security-paradigm-operation-nasr
The USA’s power erodes further and faster as they do the same-old same-old while expecting different results https://wanaen.com/irgc-claims-drone-strike-on-u-s-fifth-fleet-headquarters-in-bahrain/
Why are western media silent about what’s actually happening? Why does the western media ignore American terrorism? https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/10/770172/Unmasking-US-Israeli-terrorist-bombing-of-Iran-s-drug-factories
Western media ignores the wartime damage Iran causes the USA https://wanaen.com/khatam-al-anbiya-central-headquarters-reports-strikes-on-u-s-bases-in-the-region/
and….. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/10/770163/Iran-strikes-United-States-American-targets-Bahrain-Jordan-IRGC-Army-Hormozgan-helicopter-crash
Trump remains blissfully ignorant about the experience of ordinary Americans (these are the American victims of dumb moronic stupid yanks) https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/06/10/770164/Trump-promises-broken-and-denied-impact-on-US-economy-and-politics