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The United States military has launched retaliatory strikes against Iranian military installations after Iranian forces shot down an American reconnaissance helicopter near the Persian Gulf, killing all crew members aboard.
The strikes targeted radar sites, air defense batteries, and command-and-control centers in southern Iran using precision munitions from both manned aircraft and naval vessels — and the immediate market signal was an oil price spike tied to shipping anxiety through the Strait of Hormuz.
What the Pentagon Hit and Why Defense officials described the operation as "proportional and deliberate," framing the targeting of Iranian military infrastructure as a degradation of Iran's capacity to threaten US assets rather than the opening move of a wider war.
Iranian state media confirmed explosions near military sites in the country's southern provinces. Official casualty figures had not been released as of the initial reports.
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