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President Donald Trump said the US military would “respond” after Iran reportedly took down an Army Apache helicopter on Tuesday, raising fears of yet more escalation amid collapsing ceasefire talks.

“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack.”

The Iranian state-owned outlet PressTV acknowledged that the aircraft had gone down, describing it as coming amid “Iran’s decisive retaliation against Washington’s incessant violations of a ceasefire with the Islamic Republic,” though it did not clarify whether it had been shot down or had gone down for a different reason.

US Central Command said on Tuesday morning that “the cause of the incident is under investigation.”

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