140 Us Service Members Have Been Injured In The Iran War, Pentagon Says

About 140 U.S. work members person been wounded successful nan first 10 days of conflict pinch Iran, according to nan Pentagon.

“The immense mostly of these injuries person been minor, and 108 work members person already returned to duty,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said. Eight U.S. work members are presently “severely injured,” Parnell added.

The caller fig is nan first penetration into nan broader toll of injuries that person been sustained by U.S. troops successful nan aftermath of a barrage of retaliatory rocket and drone strikes from Iran that person besides claimed nan lives of 7 soldiers successful Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

At slightest 1,230 group person been killed successful Iran since nan warfare began, astatine slightest 397 successful Lebanon and 12 successful Israel, according to officials.

Iran’s attacks connected lipid infrastructure and pledges to choke disconnected a captious waterway near markets connected separator Tuesday arsenic nan United States promised blistering caller strikes. The warfare entered its 11th time pinch nary extremity successful show arsenic its effects were felt crossed nan Middle East and beyond.

Iran launched caller attacks against Israel and Gulf Arab countries, while Israel carried retired waves of airstrikes connected Iran and Lebanon, wherever it is battling Hezbollah militants.

Residents of Tehran said they had knowledgeable immoderate of nan heaviest strikes of nan war, starring to energy cuts successful galore neighborhoods of nan capital. One resident said his area shook for a half hr from strikes overnight and into Tuesday.

A 27-year-old mother of a toddler said she witnessed a residential building get hit. She and others reached by The Associated Press said connected information of anonymity to forestall reprisals. Tens of thousands of Iranians person sought shelter successful nan countryside.

Death toll rises successful nan Gulf

The United Arab Emirates reported 2 much deaths arsenic 9 drones struck nan country, while astir 3 twelve different drones and missiles were intercepted. Firefighters battled a blaze successful nan business metropolis of Ruwais — location to petrochemical plants — aft an Iranian drone strike, officials said. No injuries were reported there.

Iranian attacks connected nan able Gulf state — location to nan business and recreation hub of Dubai — person killed six group and wounded 122 others since nan U.S. and Israel launched a astonishment bombardment of Iran connected Feb. 28.

In Bahrain, authorities said an Iranian onslaught deed a residential building successful nan capital, Manama, sidesplitting a 29-year-old female and wounding 8 people. Bahrain's Defense Ministry says it has intercepted complete 100 ballistic missiles and 175 drones since nan warfare began.

Sirens besides sounded successful Jerusalem, and sounds of explosions could beryllium heard successful Tel Aviv arsenic Israel’s aerial defenses worked to intercept barrages from Iran. Hezbollah, which began firing connected Israel aft nan commencement of nan war, launched missiles into Israel.

US and Iranian leaders waste and acquisition threats

At nan Pentagon, Hegseth warned that Tuesday “will beryllium yet again our astir aggravated time of strikes wrong Iran: The astir fighters, nan astir bombers, nan astir strikes, intelligence much refined and amended than ever.” He added that nan past 24 hours had seen nan fewest Iranian missiles fired since nan commencement of nan war.

Gen. Dan Caine, president of nan Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. forces deed much than 5,000 targets.

Iran's leaders person remained defiant aft days of dense strikes targeting nan country's leadership, military, ballistic missiles and disputed atomic program. Iran's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said connected X that Iran was “definitely not looking for a ceasefire.”

“We judge that nan aggressor should beryllium punched successful nan rima truthful that he learns a instruction truthful that he will ne'er deliberation of attacking our beloved Iran again,” he said.

A apical Iranian information official, Ali Larijani, appeared to frighten Trump himself, penning connected X that “Iran doesn’t fearfulness your quiet threats. Even those bigger than you couldn’t destruct Iran. Be observant not to get eliminated yourself.” Iran has been accused of plotting attempts to termination Trump successful nan past.

Attacks connected lipid aimed astatine pressuring nan US

Iran has many times targeted power infrastructure pinch attacks that look aimed astatine generating capable world economical symptom to unit nan U.S. and Israel to extremity their strikes. It has besides fired connected Israel and U.S. subject bases successful nan region.

Brent crude, nan world standard, spiked to astir $120 connected Monday earlier falling backmost but was still astatine astir $90 a tube connected Tuesday, astir 24% higher than erstwhile nan warfare started connected Feb. 28. The Dow Jones Industrial Average drifted little initially connected Tuesday, but turned affirmative arsenic lipid prices sank and hopes roseate that able industrialized countries could pat into strategical reserves.

Iran has efficaciously stopped tankers from utilizing nan Strait of Hormuz, done which 20% of nan world’s lipid is carried. Attacks connected merchant ships adjacent nan strait person killed astatine slightest 7 sailors, according to nan International Maritime Organization.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it “will not let nan export of moreover a azygous liter of lipid from nan region to nan dispute broadside and its partners until further notice.”

Trump warned connected societal media that “If Iran does thing that stops nan travel of Oil wrong nan Strait of Hormuz, they will beryllium deed by nan United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they person been deed frankincense far.”

A bulk bearer apt came nether onslaught connected Tuesday disconnected nan seashore of nan United Arab Emirates, pinch nan skipper reporting a scatter and a large bang nearby, according to a monitoring halfway tally by nan British military.

Amin Nasser, nan president and CEO of Saudi Arabia’s lipid elephantine Aramco, said tankers were being rerouted to debar nan strait, and that its East-West pipeline would scope its afloat capacity of 7 cardinal barrels a time being brought to nan Red Sea larboard of nan Yanbu this week.

“The business astatine nan Strait of Hormuz is blocking sizable volumes of lipid from nan full region,” he said. “If this takes a agelong time, that will person superior effect connected nan world economy.”

Hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting

The U.N. exile agency said Tuesday that much than 667,000 group successful Lebanon had registered arsenic displaced — an summation of complete 100,000 since a time earlier — and much than 85,000 group from Lebanon, mostly Syrians, had entered neighboring Syria.

The British authorities said nan number of commercialized flights from nan UAE to nan U.K. is returning to normal levels, pinch 32 flights operated from Dubai to Britain connected Monday and different 36 scheduled Tuesday.

However, British Airways said it has suspended flights to and from Jordan, Bahrain, Qatar, Dubai and Tel Aviv until later this month.

Many overseas nationals person been getting retired of nan Persian Gulf region: Over 45,000 U.K. citizens person returned from nan area since nan conflict began, nan British Foreign Office said, and immoderate 40,000 group returned to nan United States, according to nan State Department.