An urgent update on how the Pentagon is hiding the truth about the Iran war
An urgent update on how the Pentagon is hiding the truth about the Iran war
- Wed, Jun 3 2026 at 1:32 PM
Mark M–
If you listen to Donald Trump — and much of the corporate media — you’ll hear that the Iran war is all but over.
But The Intercept’s reporting has instead revealed that the Pentagon is hiding the accurate number of U.S. troop casualties.
One defense official called it a “casualty cover-up.” Almost 800 troops have been wounded or killed in the Middle East since October 2023 — but even now, the Pentagon won’t acknowledge it, and virtually no one else is reporting on these casualties.
Trump has an obvious political incentive to hide U.S. casualties, but unlike most outlets, The Intercept refuses to simply accept the Pentagon’s official statistics.
Shockingly, our small nonprofit newsroom may be the most reliable source of information on exactly how many U.S. service members are killed or wounded in Trump’s increasingly disastrous war in Iran. But to keep investigating, we urgently need an influx of reader donations.
During the previous administration, the Pentagon provided detailed chronologies of attacks on U.S. bases in the Middle East that listed the specific outpost that was targeted, the type of strike, and whether — or how many — people were killed, along with an aggregate count of attacks by country.
Under Trump, those details are gone, and their numbers have repeatedly been out of date or omitted casualties confirmed by The Intercept.
For instance:
- U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, refuses to even offer a simple count of U.S. bases that have been attacked during the war. Their casualty statistics also omit U.S. government contractors.
- A CENTCOM spokesperson recently claimed that “approximately 303 U.S. service members have been wounded” since the start of the Iran war, omitting at least 15 casualties that have previously been reported.
- And that’s not even counting the more than 200 sailors treated for smoke inhalation or other injuries due to a fire that raged aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford.
- Additionally, CENTCOM has refused to confirm or acknowledge two Defense Department employees who were wounded in an Iranian drone strike on a hotel in Bahrain.
The American people have a right to know the true costs and casualties involved in this war. While other major news outlets unquestioningly regurgitate Pentagon talking points, we’re digging for the truth.
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