President Donald Trump said Wednesday the US would continue "hard" strikes against Iran after the military carried out attacks on Iranian targets overnight in retaliation for the downing of an attack helicopter above the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said American forces "hit them hard yesterday, and we're going to hit them again hard today," signaling indifference to the ramifications of further attacks on negotiations to formally end the US-Israeli war against Iran.
"We're going to be attacking them, attacking them very hard. Yeah, well, we are based on the helicopter, I guess we have the right to do that, you know. They shot down a very, very incredible, actually an incredible machine," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, alluding to Monday's downing of an American Apache helicopter.
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