{"id":324569,"date":"2026-03-12T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324569"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:32:32","slug":"exclusive-as-many-as-150-us-troops-wounded-so-far-in-iran-war-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324569","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive-As many as 150 US troops wounded so far in Iran war, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali \u2013 Reuters March 10, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) – As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the 10-day-old war \u200cwith Iran, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The \u200ccasualty figure has not been previously reported. Prior to Reuters’ publication of the figure, the Pentagon \u200bhad only disclosed eight U.S. personnel seriously injured.<\/p>\n

In a statement after Reuters published its report, the Pentagon estimated the figure to be approximately 140 wounded and said the vast majority of them were minor.<\/p>\n

“Since the start of Operation Epic Fury, \u200capproximately 140 U.S. service members \u2060have been wounded over 10 days of sustained attacks,” said chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.<\/p>\n

He said 108 of the wounded \u2060service members had already returned to duty.<\/p>\n

Parnell said the eight seriously wounded service members were receiving the highest level of medical care.<\/p>\n

Reuters could not determine the types of \u200binjuries \u200band whether they include traumatic brain injuries, \u200bwhich are common after exposure to \u200cblasts.<\/p>\n

Iran has launched retaliatory strikes against U.S. military bases since the start of the conflict on Feb. 28. It has also struck diplomatic missions in Arab Gulf states as well as hotels and airports and damaged oil infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon says the number of Iranian strikes has fallen sharply since the start of \u200cthe war, as the U.S. military bombs \u200bIran’s weapons inventories and targets Iran’s more limited \u200bnumber of missile launchers.<\/p>\n

Asked if \u200bIran was a stronger adversary than he expected when the \u200cU.S. military drew up its war plans, \u200bGeneral Dan Caine, \u200bchairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters earlier on Tuesday that the fight was not harder than expected.<\/p>\n

“I think they’re fighting, and \u200bI respect that, but \u200cI don’t think they are more formidable than what we thought,” \u200bCaine told a Pentagon briefing.<\/p>\n

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It sounds like the Pentagon is deliberately downplaying casualty estimates. This report makes no mention of those killed in action and claims that 108 of the 150 wounded have already returned to active duty. This sounds too good to be true and the real casualty figures are probably much higher <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324570,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324569\/revisions\/324570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}