{"id":327835,"date":"2026-06-10T06:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327835"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:20:11","slug":"trump-says-iran-shot-down-apache-helicopter-and-us-must-respond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327835","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran shot down Apache helicopter and US \u2018must respond\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>James Reynolds \u2013 The Independent June 9, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> has vowed to \u201crespond\u201d after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/iran\">Iran<\/a> shot down a U.S. military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/helicopter\">helicopter<\/a> over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/strait-of-hormuz\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI have just been informed by our great military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/apache\">Apache<\/a> helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d Trump wrote Tuesday. \u201cThere were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/attack\">attack<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The U.S. military previously said that a \u201cdrone boat\u201d found and rescued the two crew members from the waters of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the U.S. military\u2019s first known drone rescue at sea, said Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command. He said the unmanned boat located the two aviators and brought them to shore after they spent about two hours in the water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Apache helicopters, which cost around $35 million to $40 million, have been used by the U.S. military to police a blockade of Iranian ports near the strait as part of its large military presence in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/news\/iran-shoots-down-apache-helicopter-strait-of-hormuz-trump-b2992655.html\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what the likes of Ben Gvir and Prime Minister Netanyahu have been hoping and praying for, as Trump vows to respond <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":327838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327835"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327841,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327835\/revisions\/327841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}