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Over 770 US service members killed or injured since Iran conflict began
At least 18 deaths are included in the statistics shared by the US Department of Defence
The Independent
Published: 20 Aug 2026, 04:40 PM
Over 750 members of the US military have been injured since the Iran war began, according to data published on the Department of Defence’s website.
More than 50 soldiers were added to the
Pentagon’s casualty database on Wednesday, bringing the total figures to 757 injured
and 18 killed.
Iran has dismissed President Donald Trump’s declarations of an “Economic D-Day”, threatening sanctions on any nation offering a lifeline to the Middle Eastern country.
Foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said that it
would only bring “further defeat” to the US and said the leader was using it as
a “diversion from America’s own crisis: unprecedented debt and surging interest
costs.”
Trump had warned in a Truth Social post on
Wednesday: “ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses,
airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will
itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences.”
“This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need
all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and
defeat, the Iran threat.”