In Iran war news with major US political implications, two US soldiers were killed and several wounded by an Iranian drone, the Pentagon announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The tragedy, the first US combat deaths in months, came as US President Donald Trump has tried to downplay or distract attention from the hugely unpopular war that he started in late February, as his polling numbers tank four months in advance of a hugely consequential midterm election.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo US service members in Jordan were killed in action as US Central Command (CENTCOM) and partner forces defended against Iranian ballistic missile and drone attacks,\u201d CENTCOM posted to social media. \u201cAdditionally, one service member is currently missing in action.\u201d<\/p>\n
The US military a few hours later said it launched a new wave of air strikes against Iran to \u201cswiftly punish\u201d Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard and \u201cfurther degrade Iran\u2019s ability to threaten commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz\u201d.<\/p>\n
Four other service members were medically evacuated to Jordanian hospitals and discharged after the Friday attack, it added, without identifying those who died.<\/p>\n
\u201cGodspeed, heroes,\u201d US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth posted on X. \u201cTheir sacrifice only stiffens our resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Iran war news with major US political implications, two US soldiers were killed and several wounded by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7355,38,34,361,654,61895,2289,101,69,153,343,1332],"class_list":["post-212927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-axis-of-resistance","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iranian","tag-jordan","tag-jordanian","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-us","tag-us-military","tag-us-president"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116944440032909836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}