US military: 400 troops wounded in Iranian reprisal strikes
The US military has updated the number of casualties from its joint aggression with Israel against Iran.
The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday that at least 399 US service members had been wounded during the aggression on Iran that began on February 28 and ended in a two-week ceasefire on April 7.
CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said that three US troops were seriously wounded in massive Iranian retaliation against US bases in the region.
The new figure is an increase of 51 from a toll announced two weeks ago. The US military had said in its previous update that six out of 348 service members were seriously injured in the aggression against Iran. It has not provided further details on the situation of those wounded since then.
Hawkins said that some 345 troops had returned to duty after receiving treatment.
Iranian retaliatory attacks also left 13 US service members killed.
Experts suspect the US casualties in the confrontation with Iran were much higher, especially the number of fatalities which increased as Iran’s reprisal attacks expanded to cover more locations across the West Asia and Persian Gulf regions.
The US-Israeli aggression has also inflicted huge financial losses on the United States, amid the declining economic standards in the country.
Figures on the Iran War Cost Tracker, a website dedicated to real-time monitoring of the expenditures of the aggression, showed that the costs inflicted on US taxpayers because of the war on Iran were nearing $52 billion.
That would be equal to the finances needed to cover annual health insurance for 1.5 million families of four in the United States.
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US military: 400 troops wounded in Iranian reprisal strikes
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