Iran’s Army urges families of US forces to check on them amid censorship

The commander of the Iranian Army’s Ground Force has called on the families of US military personnel deployed to West Asia to check on them, citing censorship of casualty figures by the United States Central Command (CENTCOM).

In a post on the social media platform X on Wednesday, Brigadier General Ali Jahanshahi noted that CENTCOM “has heavily censored the reported number of American soldiers killed!”

“We recommend that, within the next 24 hours, families of US military personnel who have been deployed to West Asia contact their children,” he stated.

“We will see what happens,” Jahan Shahi added, in an apparent reference to possible revelations about the soldiers’ status.

His remarks came a few days after the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters said over 500 US troops were targeted in operations announced on Saturday alone, which inflicted “very heavy losses” among them.

The spokesperson for the headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Ebrahim Zolfaqari, said on Saturday that US forces had fled their regional bases due to “powerful assaults” and were hiding in two locations outside their conventional bases. According to the statement, the first hideout in Dubai housed over 400 personnel, while the second contained more than 100.

Both sites were targeted by precision missiles and drones launched by the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force and Navy.

The spokesperson described the strikes as inflicting “very heavy losses” and stated that ambulances had been transporting American soldiers, including commanders, for hours.

The statement further warned US President Donald Trump and US military commanders that the region would become a “graveyard for American soldiers” and asserted that the only option was surrender.

A day earlier, the IRGC announced the targeting of six tactical vessels operated by the US military in the Persian Gulf waters, leaving “a large number” of American forces killed in the process.

However, US official figures said only 13 American troops had so far been killed since the start of the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression against Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on Israeli-occupied territories, as well as on US bases and interests in regional countries.

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