{"id":74678,"date":"2026-06-09T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/u-s-completes-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-after-helicopter-downing\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:56:09","slug":"u-s-completes-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-after-helicopter-downing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/u-s-completes-retaliatory-strikes-against-iran-after-helicopter-downing\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. completes retaliatory strikes against Iran after helicopter downing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military says multiple rounds of retaliatory strikes which targeted air defense and radar sites are now complete. NBC News\u2019 Matt Bradley explains how the downing of an Apache helicopter by an Iranian drone provoked the return fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military says multiple rounds of retaliatory strikes which targeted air defense and radar sites are now complete. NBC News\u2019 Matt Bradley explains how the downing of an Apache helicopter by an Iranian drone provoked the return fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}