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Posted on 06/09/2026 4:19:46 PM PDT by Mariner
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it carried out strikes on Iran following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.
U.S. Central Command said on social media that the strikes would be "a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression." Iranian state media reported that explosions were heard on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping lane that Iran has effectively closed during the war, before saying that the wave of American attacks in the south has "subsided."
Trump said earlier in a social media post that Iran had shot down the aircralft while it was on patrol over the strait and declared that the U.S. "must, of necessity, respond to this attack." Iran's top diplomat said foreign military forces near the country's territory "are at constant risk" and later said after the strikes that Iran "will leave no attack or threat unanswered."
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Iran behaves as if he's on the ropes.
Anyone who thinks they'll give up the U-235 or the rest of their nuke program is living in a delusion.
Time to finish these insolent bastards off
Playing “tit for tat” with the mullahs is just not a good look. Unless you’re Javanka.
“We’re very close to having a very, very good, strong, powerful deal,” the president said.
He’s too busy playing make a deal, instead of responding with the only diplomacy the muslims understand.
Firepower and lots of it.
We’ve wasted all the munitions used in the first phase since they apparently have had sufficient time to rebuild enough to start attacks again
Flatten them.
Smells like USS Liberty.
I agree. He is looking weak because Iran knows american’s aren’t backing this action. (Democrats obviously and some Trump supporters).
The media is pushing this narrative to them. Trump needs to get a spine and not worry about it at this point. America hates a weak president more than anything.
America hates a weak president more than anything.
Don’t be Jimmy Carter, Mr. President.
Fells hopefully like these insolent bastards get reduced to rubble.
Remember: In the pre-Hammurabi world of the Mullahs it is BOTH eyes and ears for an eye and ALL teeth with a fractured jaw for a tooth.
Or just behead ‘em.
“Iran behaves as if he (POTUS) is on the ropes.”
That is because they are frozen in their system, and can’t survive domestically, if they break with the hardliners in the IRGC.
Those hardliners are not ten feet tall - they can be broken. The pressure is building on them economically, politically and militarily.
Unconfirmed rumors that IRGC Chief Vahidi was killed in recent days.
This feels like a seminar called thread with all these anti-Trump dumbasses here. Go back to DU and Reddit.
We should have sent coal miners in to get it, like the Soviets did under Chernobyl.
Day 102 of Operation Epic Furry to decapitate Iran.
He's afraid of oil prices because of the midterms. It's obvious to everyone, especially Iran. As I said last month, he won't do a thing until November.
Iran is 2.5 times the size of both Texas and Afghanistan, and 53% mountain fortress with hundreds of missile bases scattered throughout. It's an asymmetric conflict. All they have to do is periodically harass traffic in the strait and not die. And time is on their side. They have all the time in the world. The world economy doesn't.
The Pentagon told Trump there was a 93% probability of failure, but I guess you know better because of all the wargaming you and Linda Graham did.
“The Pentagon told Trump there was a 93% probability of failure”
Citation?
What were the goals against success were measured? Do you know?
So what is the AP saying here, that the helicopter was NOT downed by Iran, notice the language they use “Trump BLAMES Iran” so let me guess, Trump downed the helicopter himself LOL
Id respect Trump more if he just finished the damn job..I dont care, pay 12 bucks a gallon just FINISH THEM
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