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· collected 2026-09-03 · by Alex Sundby, Tucker Reals, Khaled Wassef
What to know about the Iran war today:
- Iran claimed Thursday to have launched new attacks targeting U.S. forces in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in retaliation for American strikes that Tehran claims killed at least 18 people the previous day, including four civilians attending a wedding party.
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- President Trump warned Wednesday that the U.S. was prepared to launch more "anytime we want," a day after what he called a "very heavy attack" on the Islamic Republic's military.
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- The U.S. is looking into reports that an American strike hit a wedding at a home in Iran's southern Hormozgan province Tuesday night.
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Iranian officials say four civilians were killed and dozens more wounded, most of them women and children.
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A Central Command spokesman said the "U.S. military never targets civilians."
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Iran says 3 military pilots, 3 other troops among those killed in latest U.S. strikes
At least six Iranian military service members were killed in the U.S. airstrikes carried out Tuesday night, Iran's semi-official Tasnim News agency said Thursday, including three it identified as pilots.
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It was not clear if the six were among the 18 people Iran's health ministry said had been killed in the U.S. attacks on Tuesday in a statement issued Wednesday night.
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Iranian authorities had said previously that those U.S. strikes killed at least four civilians attending a wedding in the Hormozgan Province, as well as four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Force, two members of the country's navy and one member of the Basij paramilitary unit.
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Trump, correcting Lutnick on U.S. war casualties, says 18 "killed in Iran"
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President Trump appeared Thursday to contradict the U.S. military's classification of American casualties during the Iran war in a brief social media post aimed at correcting remarks by Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick.
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Speaking Wednesday on CNBC, Lutnick lauded Mr. Trump's approach to the war and said "there haven't been American deaths.
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It's really just an economic choke-out, which the administration is now executing more broadly, and I think it'll be very effective."
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In his post Thursday, Mr. Trump said Lutnick "had
on his mind when he said nobody was killed.
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18 people were killed in Iran!"In July, the Pentagon website where the number of U.S. dead and wounded in military conflicts is reported listed four service members killed in Jordan and Iraq in July under "Overseas Operations Casualties" — separate from 14 other service members who have been killed during the war with Iran.
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The other 14 appear in the database as casualties of Operation Epic Fury, the Defense Department's previous name for the conflict.
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The four service members killed in Jordan and Iraq in July had previously also appeared on that list, but their names were removed, lowering the official Pentagon number on those killed in the war with Iran to 14 from 18.
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All 18 of the U.S. forces killed during the Iran war have died outside of Iran during operations against the Islamic Republic.
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No U.S. forces are known to have been killed in Iranian territory.
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Oil prices jump again as Iran continues launching attacks on U.S. Gulf allies
Oil prices jumped again Thursday as Iran claimed new strikes targeting U.S. forces across the Middle East, but bond yields eased and stock markets traded steadier after recent volatility.
Crude futures had dropped briefly, after President Trump suggested U.S. attacks against Iran would likely be short-lived, but with Iran's retaliation continuing, and likely to draw further American strikes, oil prices continued the general upward trend on Thursday that has been seen for a week, since hostilities resumed.
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Iran said it had attacked military bases used by U.S. forces in Kuwait and the UAE on Thursday, despite Mr. Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the war.
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International benchmark Brent crude was trading Thursday morning at over $97 a barrel, its highest price point since July 23.
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U.S. crude was also selling at its highest price in more than a month at over $92 a barrel early Thursday.
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Before the U.S. and Israel jointly launched the war with Iran on Feb. 28, Brent had hovered for months around the $65 a barrel mark.
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The rise in global fuel prices has pushed consumer gas prices in the U.S. up, with the average cost of a gallon of regular gas across the country hitting $4.12 on Wednesday, nearly a dollar more than one year ago, according to AAA.
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Iranian politician says "dark months await" U.S. economy, warns of shift to "asymmetric" tactics
Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref warned Thursday that "dark months await" the U.S. economy.
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He urged Americans to stockpile fuel, claiming Iran had decided to shift to "asymmetric" and "multilayered" tactics to retaliate for "new crimes of the United States against the Iranian people."
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In a likely reference to the U.S. airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least four civilians at a wedding celebration on Tuesday night in Hormozgan Province, Aref said in a social media post that U.S. actions had "changed our security calculations and defense doctrine."
"From now on, our response will be 'asymmetric,' 'multilayered' and 'depriving the aggressor of security.'
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Americans should think about stockpiling gasoline and fuel; dark months await the U.S. economy," he said, without offering any further detail.
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The U.S. military said Wednesday that it was looking into the reports of the alleged strike hitting the wedding party.
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Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins stressed repeatedly that the "U.S. military never targets civilians," which he accused Iran's military forces of doing.
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Iran's health ministry says at least 18 killed, 108 injured in U.S. strikes
Iran's Ministry of Health said late Wednesday that the previous night of U.S. strikes had killed at least 18 people and left 108 wounded.
The statement from Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi, relayed by Iran's IRIB state television network, did not provide a breakdown of civilian and military casualties, but Iranian authorities had said over the course of Wednesday that four civilians were killed in a U.S. strike that hit a wedding celebration in the southern province of Hormozgan.
On Thursday, the head of a local hospital said most of the 70 people admitted with injuries after the strike had been discharged, but 11 remained under treatment, including five who remained in intensive care.
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The hospital chief said on Iranian state TV that most of the wounded were women and children.
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Separately, Iranian officials said four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Aerospace Force, two members of the country's navy and one member of the Basij paramilitary unit were killed in strikes Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
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Iran's army claims new attacks targeting bases used by U.S. forces in Kuwait and UAE
Iran's army claimed Thursday to have launched new attacks targeting military bases used by U.S. forces in both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.
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Kuwaiti authorities said Iran had targeted the country with unspecified weapons early Thursday morning, without saying whether they were intercepted or caused any damage or casualties.
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Iran's army, in a statement, claimed it hit U.S. satellite installations, warehouses and fighter jet hangars at the Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait "with missiles and attack drones," calling the purported attacks "retaliation for the pure blood of innocent people and brave members of the armed forces" killed in American strikes this week.
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It claimed the strikes "caused damage to the communications systems and fighter aircraft hangars," but offered no evidence.
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Iran's army said radar systems and "locations where [American] forces were stationed" at the UAE's Al Minhad Air Base were also attacked with missiles and drones, though the statement did not claim to have inflicted any specific damage with the strikes.
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Kuwait condemns continued Iranian attacks in "strongest" terms
Kuwait's foreign ministry expressed its condemnation and denunciation, in the "strongest" terms, of the repeated Iranian attacks against the country, the latest of which occurred at dawn Thursday, describing them as a flagrant violation of its sovereignty, a direct threat to its security, stability, and the safety of its citizens and residents, and a serious breach of international law, the United Nations Charter, and U.N. Security Council Resolution 2817.
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In a social media post, the Ministry reiterated that the continuation of these blatant attacks reflects a hostile approach and constitutes a dangerous escalation that threatens regional security and stability while systematically undermining diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalation and reducing tensions.
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The Ministry stressed that Kuwait reserves its full right to take all necessary measures to safeguard its sovereignty, preserve its security, and defend its territory and vital facilities against any aggression or threat, based on its inherent right to self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and the rules of international law.
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