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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 High-ranking Iranian official to Al-Jazeera:

‘The American Apache helicopter was not flying over international waters. The Strait of Hormuz is Iranian waters.

We will respond decisively and immediately to any U.S. attack on Iran.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 High-ranking Iranian official to Al-Jazeera:

‘As our foreign minister said, if the U.S. does not want such unfortunate incidents, they should simply leave’

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian fighter jets have been scrambled

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Iranian drones targeted Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

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Kurds every time anything happens
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: CNN claims an Iranian Shahed-136 drone ‘collided’ with the Apache helicopter

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: CNN claims an Iranian Shahed-136 drone ‘collided’ with the Apache helicopter @Middle_East_Spectator
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NOTE: A Shahed variant capable of being used as an aerial interceptor does exist, and was marketed to Russia a while ago

However, I doubt Iran used that against the Apache. It was probably nothing more than an accident.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says the Apache incident is ‘not a big deal’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says the Apache incident is ‘not a big deal’ @Middle_East_Spectator
Soon he will say that, at the request of Pakistan, he has decided not to attack.
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘You said the U.S. must respond to the Apache shootdown, do you still feel that way?’

President Trump: ‘I don’t have to do anything. We hold all the cards. I don’t have to do it—but look, we probably will, okay? They can’t be doing that.’

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—❗️🇾🇪/🇮🇱 NEW: Initial reports of a ballistic missile launch from Yemen to Israel

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Vice President J.D. Vance says Iran and U.S. are very close to a deal, and it could come in ‘weeks or months’

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The missile failed during flight.
— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 UPDATE: The IDF claims it was a false identification and no launch took place

However, it’s still possible that it was indeed a failed launch, as two Yemeni missiles also fell short recently.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Spokesman of Iranian Parliament’s National Security Committee:

‘We kiss the hand of that warrior who, in the Strait of Hormuz, by downing an American helicopter (like Martyr Nader Mahdavi), struck another slap at the devil, and we will honor him as a hero.’

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: The person that infiltrated northern Israel today was Hamza Hammoud, an individual not part of Hezbollah or any other group

He informed his parents before the operation, and they made it public on social media after he was killed by the IDF today.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. carried out airstrikes against Iran in response to the downing of the Apache

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Strikes targeted the naval base in Sirik, air defense sites near Bandar Abbas, a coastal missile site near Minab, and possibly the Qeshm Port (unconfirmed)

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Preliminary target list:

– Sirik naval base
– Jask naval base
– Bandar Abbas AD position
– Qeshm coastal missile position


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Iranian retaliation is imminent in the next few hours.

Drone and missile crews are already assuming launch positions.
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