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Three U.S. troops killed in Iranian airstrikes

Three American service members have been killed and five others wounded during ongoing US military operations against Iran, US officials confirmed, marking a shift from the opening day of the campaign when no casualties were reported by US sources.

Authorities have not disclosed the locations of the deaths.

Separately, rumours spread on social media that the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of several US aircraft carriers operating in the Gulf, had been hit. US Central Command swiftly dismissed the claims, stating that Iranian missiles were fired at the vessel but fell well short, and that the carrier continues to conduct strike operations against targets in Iran.

The deaths present a political complication for President Donald Trump, who campaigned on keeping the United States out of new wars — a position echoed by Vice President JD Vance and, until recently, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.



Despite the escalating conflict, diplomatic channels appear to be stirring. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi allegedly told his Omani counterpart that Tehran is open to genuine de-escalation efforts, according to a statement from Oman’s foreign ministry. Oman has been serving as a go-between in recent nuclear negotiations between the two countries, and the Omani foreign minister met with Vance in Washington on Friday. Araqchi nonetheless criticised the joint US-Israeli strikes, describing them as a source of heightened tension and alarm across the region.

President Trump told legacy media source that direct talks with Iran’s new leadership could be on the horizon. “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk,” he was quoted as saying, adding that Iran had waited too long to engage. He gave no timeline for when those discussions would take place.

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15 COMMENTS

  1. More like hundreds, soon to be thousands.

    If Iran is firing missiles at warships, it is to diminish their defensive ammunition for the real attack with drone swarms and hypersonics.

    Best turn tail and get outta there with your aircraft carriers if you want them still floating in the near future.

  2. Its a lot more than three I’ll wager and when people don’t return home the lies wont be with a dollar. Stump has dug a deep hole for himself this time.

  3. Lying Trump now says “They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk,”

    After lying and talking in bad faith twice previously, the only talk he can now expect from Iran are ultimata because anybody with half-a-brain knows that Trump and the collective West are proven liars.

  4. Trump dodged the draft 5 times and is telling American families theyre gonna lose their sons and daughters while Barron Trump and BB sons are wrapped in cotton wool out of harms way. These are wars for the zio bankers only always have been and always will. Not only that the casualty numbers and asset loses are way higher. He’s a lier, crook and coward just like Hillary Clinton

  5. Trump is doomed. Believing false info from whoever is advising him he has seriously under estimated Iran’s ability to wage a war of attrition and their missile and military capabilities. There’s been no regime change, no chaos in Iran, only a hardening of the Iranian resolve. Most of the US allies in the area are run by fake puppet royalty, some of whom wont last thru popular uprisings if they go to war with Iran. Trump has alienated half his supporter base with this attack. His use to the zio project diminshes every day to the point where in a months time he will expendable.

    • I also previously thought that Trump was misinformed and thought they were all dumb yanks for starting war on Iran,…. until I saw this a few hours ago https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/03/02/2114178.html

      I then began to wonder if there’s a conspiracy in place between Trump and Putin and Xi where Putin and Xi just do nothing while Trump conquers Iran and Venezuela while I non-stop complain about it all.

      I remember Star Wars where Chancellor Palpatine secretly used the Separatist Rebels during the Clone Wars until he managed to get total power. Then he sent Darth Vader to the distant planet Mustafa to take the rebels by surprise and kill them all because Palpatine no longer needed them.

      I can’t help wondering whether Trump and Putin and Xi are all conspiring globalists betraying the rest of the world’s populations just like Chancellor Palpatine eventually betrayed the rebels after they served the purpose of undermining the Republic for Palpatine.

  6. Trump dodged the vietnam draft 5 times and no one in his family has ever served in the military for at least 5 generations. Grifting pedo ****. All iran has to.do is survive one or two months and keep methodicaly picking off US assets financial and military every day as they are doing now, and thise US body bags keep piling up, its all over for the clown

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