President Donald Trump authorized military strikes on Iran on Tuesday in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. helicopter that he said “wasn’t a big deal.”
The U.S. military confirmed that “self-defense” strikes had begun on Iran later in the afternoon.
“U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. E.T. today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter,” U.S. Central Command announced in a statement in the early evening on Tuesday. “The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”
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