US troops launched strikes on Iran hours after President Donald Trump accused Tehran of shooting down a US military helicopter off the coast of Oman.. As a result, Trump said Iran will " Experts are already noting a sharp change in Washington’s tone towards Tehran. Exchange of strikes US Central Command said its forces " In turn, the Iranian news agency Mehr noted that several explosions were heard on the island of Qeshm, in the Bandar Abbas region in southern Iran, as well as along the southern coast. US Central Command described the operation as " At the same time, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl reported that he was on the phone with Trump when the strikes were announced, and that the president called them a response to Iran's downing of an American helicopter.. “I think the response has to be very strong, very powerful, and that’s exactly what it is,” Karl reports Trump as saying.. Iran's joint military command added that its goal was to attack " The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it carried out a drone strike early on Wednesday targeting the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, state agency IRIB News reported, while Fars and Iranian state television said the country also attacked US military sites in Jordan and Kuwait. " According to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity, preliminary data suggests the Apache collided with a suicide drone while patrolling the Strait of Hormuz.. Both pilots were rescued. Centcom checks if the collision was intentional. Iran has not officially admitted involvement in the incident. At the same time, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on social network X that the country “will not leave any attack or threat unanswered.”. He also previously noted that foreign forces near Iranian territory are at risk due to human error, random incidents or possible crossfire. Escalating situation The episode, Bloomberg notes, underscores the fragility of the ceasefire that took effect in early April and threatens a peace deal that Trump has said for weeks is close to completion..

At the same time, after today's exchange of blows, Trump said that Iran " CNN analyst Kevin Liptak believes that this threat from the American leader marks a sharp change in tone towards Tehran.. So far, he said, it is not yet clear whether the US President wants to bring the agreement with Iran to an end or whether he is seriously considering new military actions. “But after weeks of optimistic words about the state of negotiations, even as tensions escalated, this led to a completely different public position,” Liptak concludes.. . Subscribe to our channels https://t. me/korrespondentnet and WhatsApp Author: 1.