U.S. Casualties in Iran Are Still Rising
The official count of U.S. personnel hurt or killed in the war on Iran inched up, but it still omits hundreds of known casualties.
The official count of U.S. personnel hurt or killed in the war on Iran inched up, but it still omits hundreds of known casualties.
As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept.
A government official accused the Pentagon of “an accounting trick” in its slow tally of Iran war casualties.
The amount of military forces gathering near Iran dwarfs even the monthslong build-up before the U.S. coup in Venezuela.
The destruction of parts of two universities in Iran fits with Israel’s M.O. of crippling countries’ ability to rebuild.
The case for invading Iraq was based on lies. The Trump administration’s case for war with Iran hardly exists at all.
Survival of the regime alone was a victory — but its demonstration of control over the Strait of Hormuz may be a strategic game-changer.
“My kids’ kids, and probably their kids, are going to be paying for this,” said one official briefed on the U.S war on Iran.
“What crime had my 20-day-old grandchild committed?”
U.S. troops killed or wounded since July 7 are now counted separately from casualties during the first months of the Iran war.
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