Trump claimed a helicopter shot down over Hormuz and promised Iran a response

Updated: Iranian Foreign Ministry's position has been added.

Iran shot down one of the US Apache helicopters while it was patrolling the airspace over the Strait of Hormuz, US President Donald Trump said on Truth Social media. According to him, it happened last night, he was notified about it by the military. Two pilots survived, without injuries, Trump wrote.

The US should "inevitably" respond to this attack, the US president added. He did not specify what that response might be.

The Strait of Hormuz is not international waters but Iranian and Omani space that is located "thousands of miles from the US shores," Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said on social network X. He said "foreign forces in the vicinity" of Iranian territory are constantly at risk due to "their own human errors, accidental accidents or potential crossfire." The best solution would be to withdraw foreign forces "from an environment that will never be favorable to a hostile presence," Abbas Araghchi added.

Brent crude oil quotes, which before Trump's announcement were down almost 5% and fell below $89.6 per barrel, jumped to $92.5 per barrel after the publication, before falling back slightly, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange. Despite the rapid rise, futures are still cheaper than the closing level a day earlier. American oil WTI at the time of publication of this text cheapened by 3.6% - to $88 per barrel.

The U.S. stock market is declining on Tuesday due to a renewed sell-off in the technology sector. The Nasdaq Composite index was losing about 2.6% after Trump's publication, the S&P 500 broad market index was falling 1.6%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average blue-chip index was down 0.8%. The Russell 2000 index of small and mid-capitalization companies was down 3%. At the same time, the CBOE Volatility Wall Street Fear Index (VIX) jumped 15% to just under 22 points. The psychological level is considered to be 20 points, an index above it indicates high volatility.

Then the stocks slowed down a bit. For example, by the time this text was published, the Nasdaq Composite was losing 2.1% and the S&P 500 was losing 1.2%.

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