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Iran says it successfully struck its first U.S. aircraft of the war. An American F-35 made an emergency landing after the incident and the pilot appeared to be uninjured.
- What the president said just before the news broke: “Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their antiaircraft equipment is gone. We’re flying wherever we want, we have nobody even shooting at us.”
Changing narratives on Israel’s strikes in Iran: Last night, Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that the U.S. “knew nothing” about an Israeli attack on Iran’s South Pars gas field, saying that our ally had “lashed out.” But in remarks to reporters at the White House today, Trump said that he cautioned Israeli officials against the attack beforehand.
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“We’re independent. We get along great. It’s coordinated,” the president said.