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The number of<\/span> U.S. casualties in the Iran war ticked higher on Tuesday, hours after American military forces conducted what U.S. Central Command called \u201cself-defense strikes\u201d in southern Iran. Official Pentagon statistics put the current casualty toll at 423, an increase of three wounded from the War Department\u2019s last official tally issued on Friday.<\/p>\n

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The increase in casualties came as Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement that the war had exposed the vulnerability of U.S. military bases across the Middle East and as Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps threatened to respond to any U.S. strikes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hands of time do not turn backward, and the nations and lands of the region will no longer serve as shields for American bases,\u201d Khamenei said in his statement. \u201cAmerica, in addition to no longer having a safe place for aggression and military bases in the region, is moving further away from its former status day by day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The U.S. has been clinging to a rickety ceasefire with Iran for more than a month, as President Donald Trump \u2014 who\u00a0previously threatened to\u00a0commit genocide\u00a0in that country \u2014 has oscillated between claims that a peace agreement is imminent and talk of renewed hostilities.<\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that talks to end the war were continuing but that a peace agreement could take \u201ca few days.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reporting by The Intercept found that the Pentagon\u2019s official tally of dead and wounded military personnel from the Iran War is a gross undercount, stemming from what one U.S. government official called a \u201ccasualty cover-up.\u201d The Defense Casualty Analysis System, or DCAS, which tracks \u201cdeceased, wounded, ill or injured\u201d service members for\u00a0Congress and the president, is missing hundreds of known casualties.<\/p>\n

On April 8, the day the ceasefire deal was struck between the Trump administration and Iran, the tally of U.S. dead and wounded was 385. Despite a pause in hostilities, the number slowly rose to 428, according to Pentagon statistics.<\/p>\n

On April 21, however, the number of wounded-in-action troops declined by 15 without public comment from the War Department, dropping the casualty total to 413. Despite repeated questions over the last month, the Pentagon has not commented on the disparity in its casualty count.<\/p>\n

Since then, the casualty count has crept upward, with the number of dead increasing by one and the number of wounded topping out at 409 on Tuesday, yielding a combined total of 423 dead and wounded U.S. personnel.<\/p>\n

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On Thursday, CENTCOM told The Intercept, \u201c13 service members were killed in action and one service member passed due to a non-combat related medical emergency during Operation Epic Fury\u201d \u2014 the military\u2019s name for the campaign.<\/p>\n

For weeks, DCAS listed 13 hostile and non-hostile U.S. deaths during the war. Most DCAS webpages still claim 13 U.S. deaths but one put the tally at 14 as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon list of the names of the dead is still missing Maj. Sorffly Davius, a signals and communication officer with the New York Army National Guard who was assigned to the headquarters of the 42nd Infantry Division and reportedly died of sudden illness while on duty in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, on March 6. Davius\u2019s death was widely acknowledged even as it was excluded from the the official count: Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., spoke about him during a\u00a0memorial service\u00a0that month, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,\u00a0recognized Davius\u00a0while \u201chonoring our fallen.\u201d<\/p>\n

CENTCOM did not reply to a request for comment on whether Davius was the recently referenced non-combat fatality.<\/p>\n

While DCAS provides a running tally of \u201cnon-hostile\u201d deaths \u2014 meaning those who died from accidents or by illness \u2014 it doesn\u2019t include \u201cnon-hostile\u201d injuries. The DCAS figures show that 64 Navy personnel have been wounded in action.<\/p>\n

Missing, however, are the more than\u00a0200 sailors\u00a0treated for smoke inhalation or lacerations due to a March 12 fire that raged aboard the\u00a0USS\u00a0Gerald R. Ford.\u00a0The aircraft carrier had been conducting round-the-clock flight operations to, Caine said, \u201cproject combat power\u201d in the Middle East. The ship returned to its home port in Norfolk, Va., this month after 326 days at sea, the longest deployment of any U.S. aircraft carrier since the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n

The numbers also don\u2019t include a sailor who suffered a\u00a0non-combat-related injury\u00a0aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as it was involved in \u201cstrike missions in support of Operation Epic Fury\u201d on March 25.<\/p>\n

For weeks, the Pentagon has failed to reply to repeated requests for comment on why DCAS provides counts of non-hostile war zone deaths but not non-hostile injuries or illnesses. CENTCOM did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for clarification concerning the casualty figures.<\/p>\n

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