Trump and Iran trade new threats after strikes exchanged

Trump's comments were in contrast to Tuesday, when he told journalists the US and Iran were "in the final throes of what will be a very, very good deal".Also on Wednesday, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqai accused the US of "damaging this diplomatic process through the contradictory messages it sends, its repeated shifts in positions and demands, and, worst of all, through repeated violations of the ceasefire".He said Iran needed to re-assess the situation, adding that any diplomatic process required a minimum of stability.On Tuesday, Centcom described its strikes on Iran as "a proportional response" for the Apache helicopter downing on Monday, with the IRGC describing them as "vicious".Trump previously said on Truth Social that the helicopter had been "shot down" as it was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping channel that has been effectively closed since the conflict started in late February.Fox News quoted Trump on Wednesday as saying that an Iranian drone had hit the helicopter without exploding as it flew "very low" .The two crew members survived and were rescued by an American sea drone.According to US officials, Iran used a drone to launch the attack on the helicopter. But it is not clear whether the drone had deliberately attacked it, an unnamed US official told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.