00:00The U.S. launched what it called self-defensive strikes against Iran Monday evening, Eastern Time,
00:05after President Trump blamed the Islamic Republic for shooting down an American Apache attack
00:09helicopter that crashed near the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said, quote,
00:13the mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.
00:18That tenuous Iran-Israel-U.S. ceasefire is clearly on even shakier ground than it has been,
00:24if we can even call it that anymore. The two pilots involved in the Apache crash were rescued
00:29and are, according to the president, uninjured. The downing of the chopper came just as the
00:34commander-in-chief announced his latest timeline for a peace deal in Iran. In his words, peace is
00:39about two or three days away. But we've been here before. According to the Post's calculations,
00:45the president has made that claim that the U.S. and Iran are close to a deal 37 times since
00:52the
00:52start of the war on February 26th. So just how big were these latest strikes and what does it mean
00:58for the status of peace talks? The Post's Washington reporter, Caitlin Dornbos, got me up to speed.
01:03So it doesn't look like right now that these retaliatory strikes are going to lead the U.S.
01:10back into relaunching a full-scale war against Iran. President Trump has been really careful to try to
01:16avoid that while still making that decision yesterday to go ahead and strike Iran because of its
01:25downing of a U.S. Apache military helicopter just a day before. So those targeted strikes that were
01:33in response to that helicopter downing, those have been rather limited, hitting some cities along the
01:41coastline between Iran and the Strait of Hormuz that are mostly filled with weapons or places that they
01:49have launched weapons from. One in particular that we know was hit was some of the air defense systems
01:58as well as some radar systems that Iran's military, the IRGC that is, uses in its strikes and to threaten
02:09the Strait of Hormuz. So as of now, no return to war. But again, it brings up this question of
02:16how long
02:17will President Trump last? How long will his patience last? And is it a threat of stopping and
02:27having this return to war? Right now, it seems like no, but you never know how the situation
02:32goes with this war. We've seen it change multiple, multiple times.
02:35We've seen it change multiple times.
02:35We've seen it change multiple times.
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