Middle East crisis live: US military launches strikes against Iran after Trump vowed response to downing of helicopter

Wednesday’s strikes by the US on Iran are just the latest in a series of ceasefire breaches that have escalated considerably in the last two weeks.

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After weeks of conflict, the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on 8 April and entered into protracted negotiations to reopen the strait of Hormuz and resolve the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.

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Since then the US and Iran have exchanged strikes on at least four occasions, but in every instance both sides have characterised their actions as “measured” and “limited”, and stressed the importance of maintaining the ceasefire.

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The ceasefire faced its biggest test on Sunday, when Iran launched missiles at Israel in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs. The Israeli military launched airstrikes on Iran in retaliation; the first exchange of fire between the two countries since the ceasefire was reached.

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Fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East eased on Monday, with Israel and Iran saying they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from Donald Trump to “immediately stop shooting”.

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The breaches of the ceasefire fly in the face of Trump’s continued claims that a longterm deal with Iran is close. The US president is reportedly very close to agreeing to a series of Iranian demands that would allow the strait to reopen to traffic, and begin the process of a new round of nuclear negotiations. However Trump has for weeks promised that a deal is close, but failed to follow through on those promises.

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Multiple media outlets are reporting that the US is carrying out a second round of strikes on Iran, targeting air defence and radar systems.

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Iranian state media is reporting the sounds of explosions in a number of areas. We’ll bring you more on this as it comes in.

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Iran will leave “no attack or threat unanswered”, says the country’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.

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Posting an image of the strait of Hormuz with the label, “Forever Persian Gulf”, Araghchi says that “despite its defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. opted to test our determination.”

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Leave our region if you want to be safe. History of the Persian Gulf has many chapters on dire fates of intruding outsiders.

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Despite its defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. opted to test our determination.

Our Powerful Armed Forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered.

Leave our region if you want to be safe.

History of the Persian Gulf has many chapters on dire fates of intruding outsiders. pic.twitter.com/O17GGtklxA

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 9, 2026

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  The US began launching airstrikes at Iran in response to a military helicopter crash off the strait of Hormuz that Donald Trump said Iran had downed. Iran state media is currently reporting explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas and the island of Qeshm, according to Reuters. US Central Command said the strikes came “at the Commander in Chief’s direction”.

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  Five hours before the airstrikes, Trump had posted on social media that the US “must” respond to the helicopter crash, from which two crew members were rescued in stable condition. Before his social media post, however, Trump appeared to down play the crash, telling the Wall Street Journal in a phone interview that it “wasn’t a big deal” and that “the pilot is fine.” Centcom had also posted on social media that the crash was under investigation.

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  Iranian state media reported that no air military operations have taken place in the strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours, according to Reuters – which means Iran did not shoot down the US military helicopter. However, the military source quoted by Iranian state media said there would be a “decisive response” to any renewed hostility from the US because of the helicopter crash.

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  Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Araghchi warned that “foreign forces in proximity to our territory are at constant risk on account of their own human errors, plain accidents, or potentially being caught in crossfire” in a post on X that came after Trump’s Truth Social declaration that the US “must” respond.

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  Lebanon’s health ministry said 11 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Tyre on Tuesday. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) had reported the first strike taking place not long before Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for the entire city and surrounding areas ahead of strikes there.

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  Britain, Canada, France and Norway announced new coordinated sanctions on Tuesday against Israeli networks involved in financing, enabling and carrying out violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The move follows escalating violence by Israeli settlers, which diplomats say is intended to undermine prospects for a Palestinian state.

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  Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, has thanked Iran for attacking Israel “in defence” of Lebanese people, suggesting that Lebanon’s government should take this opportunity to improve relations with Tehran. In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah said Lebanese authorities should “take advantage of this opportunity and correct their official relations with the Islamic Republic in a way that serves the interests of both countries.”

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  UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he was “deeply alarmed” by the renewed escalation in violence in the Middle East. “All attacks must stop immediately. The ceasefires in Lebanon, Iran + Gaza must be fully respected,” he said in a post on X.

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The US military began launching “self-defense” strikes again Iran at 5pm EST Tuesday – about 1am local time, US Central Command said.

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The strikes come “at the Commander in Chief’s direction” in response to yesterday’s downing of a US army Apache helicopter,” Centcom said.

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“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” the post reads.

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Explosions have been reported in Iran’s south, close to the strait of Hormuz, according to state media.

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The Lebanese health ministry said Tuesday that an Israeli strike killed three near Tyre in southern Lebanon, bringing the death toll up to 11 in the region, AFP reports.

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Nine people were also wounded in the strike.

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  Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Tyre before an Israeli military warning on Tuesday killed at least eight people and wounded 32 others, noting the toll was provisional. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) had reported the strike not long before Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for the entire city and surrounding areas ahead of strikes there.

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  The Israeli army on Tuesday said its forces killed a gunman who had managed to infiltrate Israeli territory from Lebanon and opened fire on its troops. “A short while ago, an initial report was received regarding a shooting toward IDF soldiers operating in the Ramim Ridge area,” the army said, referring to a mountainous area stretching between Israel and Lebanon.

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  Britain, Canada, France and Norway announced new coordinated sanctions on Tuesday against Israeli networks involved in financing, enabling and carrying out violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The move follows escalating violence by Israeli settlers, which diplomats say is intended to undermine prospects for a Palestinian state.

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  France has banned Israel’s far-right finance minister Bezalel Smotrich from entering the country, as part of coordinated sanctions with other countries over settler violence against Palestinians. Smotrich is the second member of the Israeli government to be forbidden from entering France in recent months, after national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir was barred on 23 May for mocking activists detained by Israeli soldiers from a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid for the Palestinian territory.

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  In a phone interview with the BBC, Donald Trump said he had stressed the need “to use a lot of common sense” when he spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, who he has reportedly grown increasingly exasperated with during the war. “All I did is say, ‘we have to use sense’. We’re very close to signing a very powerful deal, a very good deal,” Trump said of the conversation. “No nuclear weapons, no nothing. You know, we have to use a lot of common sense. It was fine.”

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  Trump said the peace deal with Iran is in its “final throes” and suggested that the strait of Hormuz could open up in “two or three days” if an agreement with Tehran is secured. “It will open up immediately upon signing,” he told reporters on the tarmac at JFK airport after watching the NBA Finals on Monday night, insisting that Iran will not be allowed nuclear weapons under the terms of a deal.

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  Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, has thanked Iran for attacking Israel “in defence” of Lebanese people, suggesting that Lebanon’s government should take this opportunity to improve relations with Tehran. In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah said Lebanese authorities should “take advantage of this opportunity and correct their official relations with the Islamic Republic in a way that serves the interests of both countries.”

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  UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he was “deeply alarmed” by the renewed escalation in violence in the Middle East. “All attacks must stop immediately. The ceasefires in Lebanon, Iran + Gaza must be fully respected,” he said in a post on X.

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  A US navy surface drone found and rescued the two crew from a US Apache attack helicopter from the waters of the strait of Hormuz, the US military’s Central Command has told the Reuters news agency.

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  Iran’s football federation (FFIRI) said on Tuesday that its ticket allocation for the World Cup has been pulled just days before it starts, leaving supporters who had already made travel plans unable to attend their team’s matches. “This is despite the fact that many Iranian football fans, relying on the officially announced process, had already made the necessary plans to attend the matches,” the FFIRI added in a statement.

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a US military helicopter was shot down by Iran and that the United States “must” respond.

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In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said he had been informed “that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the strait of Hormuz.”

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While the pilots were uninjured, “the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

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The heads of several churches in Tyre have appealed for the international community and Lebanese leaders, including the president Joseph Aoun, to act quickly to prevent Israel from attacking the Christian district of the major southern Lebanese port city.

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“The Old City is the heart of Tyre, and any attack on it would be a national catastrophe,” the statement said.

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It went on to describe the Old City as being home to innocent civilians and “centuries-old cultural and religious heritage”.

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“We call for immediate political and security efforts to preserve the ability to remain steadfast, and we call on the international community and UN agencies to fulfil their moral responsibility to protect the population in accordance with international humanitarian law,” the church leaders said.

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The statement by the Christian leaders was from George Iskandar, the metropolitan archbishop of Tyre for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church; Elias Kfoury, the Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Tyre, Sidon and Dependencies; and Charbel Abdullah, the archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre.

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The Israeli military earlier issued an urgent evacuation order for residents in Lebanon’s fifth biggest city to flee ahead of attacks it claimed were aimed at Hezbollah. For the first time in this current conflict, the evacuation order was issued for an entire area in Tyre which is a Christian neighbourhood.

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At least eight people were reportedly killed following an Israeli airstrike on the city earlier with dozens of people reported to have sustained injuries.

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Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Tyre before an Israeli military warning on Tuesday killed at least eight people and wounded 32 others, noting the toll was provisional.

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The state-run National News Agency (NNA) had reported the strike not long before Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for the entire city and surrounding areas ahead of strikes there.

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Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, has thanked Iran for attacking Israel “in defence” of Lebanese people, suggesting that Lebanon’s government should take this opportunity to improve relations with Tehran.

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In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah said Lebanese authorities should “take advantage of this opportunity and correct their official relations with the Islamic Republic in a way that serves the interests of both countries.”

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Iran’s support for Lebanon’s “legitimate rights, and its bearing of material and political costs, reaffirms that Iran is the one that supports Lebanon, not the other way around,” the group added.

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Lebanon’s government has been engaging in US-mediated talks with Israel, something that Hezbollah, which is more powerful than the Lebanese army and operates independently of the state, opposes and sees as an act of humiliation.

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Israeli troops have taken control of around a fifth of Lebanon since Hezbollah launched attacks on northern Israel in solidarity with Iran days after the US and Israel killed the former Iranian supreme leader in Tehran in February.

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The Lebanese state accuses Hezbollah of dragging the country into war and had made efforts to disarm it before the latest escalation of fighting. Hezbollah has refused to hand over its arsenal in full and said the dispute over the group’s weapons is an internal affair.

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Last week, Hezbollah’s leader, Naim Qassem, demanded a complete ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli troops from Lebanon, and said that as long as Lebanese villages were being bombed, northern Israel would not be safe.

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Iran’s state TV said at least two members of an Iranian air defence unit were killed in Israeli attacks on Monday.

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State TV identified the men as Bahman Hosseini and Ali Reza Abiri, without offering a rank for them. Their funerals will reportedly be held today. The report said they would be buried in a city outside of Tehran, suggesting they had been posted near the capital.

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At least eight people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike on a popular housing area in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the civil defence in southern Lebanon has told Al Jazeera Arabic. We have not been able to independently verify this report.

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The IDF earlier issued a forced evacuation order for Tyre, warning residents to flee before an attack was launched (see post at 08.32 for more details).

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The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, has issued the latest forced evacuation order for residents of Tyre, Lebanon’s fifth biggest city, ahead of attacks.

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“Urgent warning to the residents of the city of Tyre, including the Christian quarter, and the camps and surrounding neighbourhoods,” he wrote, urging residents in the southern Lebanese city to “evacuate immediately” and “move north beyond the Zahrani river”.

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The strikes will be carried out because Hezbollah violated the ceasefire agreement and is targeting “Israel’s home front”, Adraee said, but these attacks, which occur on a near-daily basis, often are reported to kill civilians and destroy civilian infrastructure.

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More than a million people have been displaced by Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon, sparking a refugee and humanitarian crisis with the sweeping evacuation orders forcing people to flee their homes, often with very short notice or no notice at all. Many have few resources, limited access to basic services, food, shelter and healthcare.

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The IDF says it is countering the Hezbollah threat against northern Israel and has been demolishing homes, occupying territory in the south of Lebanon and launching attacks on towns and villages with impunity under this justification.

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Iran, which has backed and funded Hezbollah for decades, has made it clear that no peace deal with the US can be signed until Israel ceases its attacks in Lebanon (not just Beirut, but in the south as well).

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Lebanon was drawn into the war when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel on 2 March to avenge the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s former supreme leader.

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The US president, Donald Trump, has said the peace deal with Iran is in its “final throes” and suggested that the strait of Hormuz could open up in “two or three days” if an agreement with Tehran is secured.

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“It will open up immediately upon signing,” he told reporters on the tarmac at JFK airport after watching the NBA Finals on Monday night, insisting that Iran will not be allowed nuclear weapons under the terms of a deal.

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Trump said there are no “sticking points” that would prevent a deal from being reached, although the management of the strait, the way frozen Iranian assets are to be released and Israel’s war on Lebanon have all contributed to the deadlock in negotiations thus far.

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Trump has repeatedly threatened to resume full-scale bombing of Iran, although has pulled back several times as he likely knows that new strikes will keep the strait of Hormuz under the effective control of Iran and lead to an extremely dangerous escalation of attacks on US-allied Gulf states.

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The effective closure of the strait has led to soaring energy prices around the globe, including in the US where the war is deeply unpopular. Trump said:

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We are very close to having a very, very good strong, powerful deal. If we go and bomb – which we can do very easily if we want and we spend another two or three weeks bombing – they’ll have nothing left whatsoever but you won’t have the strait open for months.

n

If we do the bombing a lot of people are going to be killed. Who wants to do that? I don’t . And we’ll have a signed document that is actually stronger than doing the bombing.

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Striking a rather casual tone, Trump told reporters Israel and Iran had been in conflict for thousands of years, and after his intervention would leave each other alone for at least a week.

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He said he had a “very good conversation” with Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under political pressure to continue his assault on Lebanon in order to degrade the military capabilities of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group.

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“He (Netanyahu) was hit, and he hit back, and I can’t blame him for that,” Trump said. “But he was hit, he hit back, and now they’ve called it quits. So they’re going to just leave each other alone for another week or something.”

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Israel, ignoring Trump’s wishes, attacked the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Sunday in what Tehran viewed as a violation of the US-Iran ceasefire. Israel claimed it was targeting Hezbollah infrastructure after it said the group fired rockets at northern Israel.

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Iran in turn launched missiles at Israel on Sunday and a fresh exchange of fire between the two sides occurred yesterday. Iran announced a cessation of its attacks after Trump demanded both sides stop “shooting” in a social media post.

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Tehran said, however, that it would attack again if Israel persisted with its strikes in Lebanon, while Netanyahu warned that should Iran “make the mistake of resuming attacks against us, we will respond with full force”.

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Key events

The precarious US-Iran ceasefire explained

Wednesday’s strikes by the US on Iran are just the latest in a series of ceasefire breaches that have escalated considerably in the last two weeks.

After weeks of conflict, the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on 8 April and entered into protracted negotiations to reopen the strait of Hormuz and resolve the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.

Since then the US and Iran have exchanged strikes on at least four occasions, but in every instance both sides have characterised their actions as “measured” and “limited”, and stressed the importance of maintaining the ceasefire.

The ceasefire faced its biggest test on Sunday, when Iran launched missiles at Israel in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs. The Israeli military launched airstrikes on Iran in retaliation; the first exchange of fire between the two countries since the ceasefire was reached.

Fears of a return to a full-scale regional war in the Middle East eased on Monday, with Israel and Iran saying they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from Donald Trump to “immediately stop shooting”.

The breaches of the ceasefire fly in the face of Trump’s continued claims that a longterm deal with Iran is close. The US president is reportedly very close to agreeing to a series of Iranian demands that would allow the strait to reopen to traffic, and begin the process of a new round of nuclear negotiations. However Trump has for weeks promised that a deal is close, but failed to follow through on those promises.

Iranian state media are reporting the sounds of explosions in Sirik and Bandar Abbas, on Iran’s southern coast.

Both sites were targeted by US strikes earlier today.

US reportedly carrying out second round of strikes on Iran

Multiple media outlets are reporting that the US is carrying out a second round of strikes on Iran, targeting air defence and radar systems.

Iranian state media is reporting the sounds of explosions in a number of areas. We’ll bring you more on this as it comes in.

The Associated Press is reporting that the US army helicopter that crashed off the coast of Oman went down after colliding with an Iranian drone, citing a US official.

AP reports that it is not clear whether the collision was intentional, and official statements from the US government only said the crash is under investigation.

On Tuesday Donald Trump said Iran shot down the aircraft while it was on patrol over the strait of Hormuz and declared that the US “must, of necessity, respond to this attack,” in a post to social media. Hours later the US military began new strikes on Iran.

US House speaker Mike Johnson is among the many senior American officials playing down the significance of the strikes.

He called the strikes on Iran “targeted”, “proportional” and “defensive in nature.”

Johnson said he spent several hours earlier in the situation room with Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance, secretary of state, Marco Rubio and defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, discussing the Iran war and other matters.

“We lament that has become necessary,” he said.

But he said after Iran struck US assets and personnel in the region, “We can’t allow that.”

Iranian state media is now reporting that the situation is “calm”, after the US attacks on the south of the country.

There are reports that the country’s Revolutionary Guards are promising retaliatory strikes on America’s Gulf allies, we’ll bring you those updates if they are confirmed.

Iran will leave ‘no attack or threat unanswered’, says foreign minister

Iran will leave “no attack or threat unanswered”, says the country’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi.

Posting an image of the strait of Hormuz with the label, “Forever Persian Gulf”, Araghchi says that “despite its defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. opted to test our determination.”

Leave our region if you want to be safe. History of the Persian Gulf has many chapters on dire fates of intruding outsiders.

Despite its defeats on the battlefield, the U.S. opted to test our determination.

Our Powerful Armed Forces will leave no attack or threat unanswered.

Leave our region if you want to be safe.

History of the Persian Gulf has many chapters on dire fates of intruding outsiders. pic.twitter.com/O17GGtklxA

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 9, 2026

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The US appears eager to play down the significance of these strikes, with multiple officials briefing US media that they expect wider negotiations with Iran to be unaffected by the action.

Politico is reporting comments from a senior White House official, saying Donald Trump still thinks a peace deal with Iran is on the horizon.

“Nothing changes where the deal stands right now,” Politico reported the official as saying, adding that a deal with Tehran was “still close.”

A US official told CNN that the strikes are a “warning shot” and they areexpecting them to affect the negotiations.

We are starting to get an idea of the areas that the US has targeted in its attacks on Iran.

Iranian state media have reported attacks on Sirik and Bandar Abbas – both areas along the coast of the strait of Hormuz – and Qeshm, an island in the strait.

Axios is reporting that the US is targeting Iranian air defence batteries and radar systems around the strait.

We have yet to hear directly from Donald Trump, since the US military began striking Iran in response to the downing of an Apache helicopter on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, the president said the US would “respond” to the downing of the helicopter, and accused Iran of shooting it down.

Since the bombing restarted he has posted a Reuters report from January about America’s widening trade deficit to his Truth Social account, and another report from April claiming the trade deficit was narrowing.

Donald Trump has said he wanted a “very powerful” response to Iran shooting down the US helicopter, according to Jonathan Karl, correspondents for ABC News.

Karl says he was on the phone with Trump as the US military announced the strikes on Iran.

“I think it’s very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak,” Trump said, according to Karl.

“This is a response to what they did … with our helicopter last night, and I believe the response should be very strong, very powerful, and that’s what this one is.”

I was on the phone with Trump as CENTCOM announced US retaliatory strikes against Iran. Here's what he said:

“I think it's very important to respond. They shot down a helicopter, and we are responding as we speak.”

He added: “This is a response to what they did they did with…

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 9, 2026

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Today so far

• The US began launching airstrikes at Iran in response to a military helicopter crash off the strait of Hormuz that Donald Trump said Iran had downed. Iran state media is currently reporting explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas and the island of Qeshm, according to Reuters. US Central Command said the strikes came “at the Commander in Chief’s direction”.

• Five hours before the airstrikes, Trump had posted on social media that the US “must” respond to the helicopter crash, from which two crew members were rescued in stable condition. Before his social media post, however, Trump appeared to down play the crash, telling the Wall Street Journal in a phone interview that it “wasn’t a big deal” and that “the pilot is fine.” Centcom had also posted on social media that the crash was under investigation.

• Iranian state media reported that no air military operations have taken place in the strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours, according to Reuters – which means Iran did not shoot down the US military helicopter. However, the military source quoted by Iranian state media said there would be a “decisive response” to any renewed hostility from the US because of the helicopter crash.

• Iran’s foreign minister Seyed Araghchi warned that “foreign forces in proximity to our territory are at constant risk on account of their own human errors, plain accidents, or potentially being caught in crossfire” in a post on X that came after Trump’s Truth Social declaration that the US “must” respond.

• Lebanon’s health ministry said 11 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Tyre on Tuesday. The state-run National News Agency (NNA) had reported the first strike taking place not long before Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning for the entire city and surrounding areas ahead of strikes there.

• Britain, Canada, France and Norway announced new coordinated sanctions on Tuesday against Israeli networks involved in financing, enabling and carrying out violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The move follows escalating violence by Israeli settlers, which diplomats say is intended to undermine prospects for a Palestinian state.

• Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group, has thanked Iran for attacking Israel “in defence” of Lebanese people, suggesting that Lebanon’s government should take this opportunity to improve relations with Tehran. In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah said Lebanese authorities should “take advantage of this opportunity and correct their official relations with the Islamic Republic in a way that serves the interests of both countries.”

• UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he was “deeply alarmed” by the renewed escalation in violence in the Middle East. “All attacks must stop immediately. The ceasefires in Lebanon, Iran + Gaza must be fully respected,” he said in a post on X.

The US strikes on Iran came just five hours after Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Iran had shot down a US military helicopter that was patrolling the strait of Hormuz and that the US “must” respond.

Earlier, US Central Command said the crash – in which two crew members were rescued in stable condition – was still under investigation. In a phone call with the Wall Street Journal before his Truth Social post, Trump appeared to also down play the crash, telling the Journal that it “wasn’t a big deal” and that “the pilot is fine.”

Iranian state media is reporting explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas and the island of Qeshm, according to Reuters.

US military says it’s launching strikes against Iran after Trump vowed response to downing of helicopter

The US military began launching “self-defense” strikes again Iran at 5pm EST Tuesday – about 1am local time, US Central Command said.

The strikes come “at the Commander in Chief’s direction” in response to yesterday’s downing of a US army Apache helicopter,” Centcom said.

“The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression,” the post reads.

Explosions have been reported in Iran’s south, close to the strait of Hormuz, according to state media.

Three killed in Israeli strike near Tyre in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese health ministry said Tuesday that an Israeli strike killed three near Tyre in southern Lebanon, bringing the death toll up to 11 in the region, AFP reports.

Nine people were also wounded in the strike.

Iranian state media is reporting that no air military operations have taken place in the strait of Hormuz over the past 24 hours, according to Reuters – which means Iran did not shoot down the US military helicopter, an attack to which Donald Trump says the US “must” respond.

The military source quoted by Iranian state media said there would be a “decisive response” to any renewed hostility from the US because of the helicopter crash, Reuters reports.

In that same statement on X, Seyed Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, once again asserted his belief that the strait of Hormuz is an exclusively Omani-Iranian waterway and that Iran has a right to defend itself against foreign forces in its territory.

The Guardian’s Patrick Wintour has more details on how this assertion butts against the principle of freedom of navigation – international laws protecting freedom of movement at sea:

Western diplomats say Iranian proposals for the future permanent management of the strait are unlawful since they impose tolls on commercial shipping and would give Iran an arbitrary right to select the ships that are allowed passage, possibly based on the nationality of ownership.…The legal rights of coastal states to impose tolls lies at the heart of the deadlock on how to reopen the strait and whether Iran’s proposed move, by restricting freedom of navigation, is illegal and sets a precedent for other similar waterways.

Iran became a signatory to the UN convention on the law of the sea (Unclos) in 1982, very soon after the 1979 revolution, but never ratified the treaty.

This means that from Iran’s perspective it is not bound by the treaty’s transit passage rules that underpin freedom of navigation, but instead by customary international law, including a more restrictive right of innocent passage.

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