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Washington, United States – The Pentagon has removed four U.S. soldiers killed in renewed fighting with Iran from its official Iran war casualty tally and placed them in a separate category labeled “Overseas Operations.” The change appeared last week in the Defense Casualty Analysis System, the database the Pentagon has repeatedly cited as the authoritative record of U.S. dead and wounded from the conflict. The new category lists the four Army deaths by name and 207 wounded service members, although the system does not clarify whether all of those wounded were injured in the Iran war. As of Tuesday, before the changes, the Iran war toll had been listed as 18 killed and 482 wounded, a figure that matched President Donald Trump’s description of 18 U.S. fatalities in a Truth Social post referring to the “Iran Military Conflict.” Washington, United States – By Wednesday, the Iran war figures displayed on the Pentagon system had dropped back to 14 dead and 420 wounded, even as a U.S. official told The Associated Press that the actual number of wounded from the conflict had climbed to well over 500. Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez said Thursday that the adjustments were the result of anomalies and temporary data disruptions, and Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell similarly described the changing figures as a temporary disruption, rejecting claims that officials were trying to obscure casualties. The update comes after four troops were killed following the breakdown of an interim ceasefire, including three on a base in Jordan struck by Iranian ballistic missiles and drones on July 17 and one in Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone. The reclassification and fluctuating numbers have prompted questions from lawmakers, veterans and military families, who are demanding a transparent and accurate accounting of the human cost of the war.

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