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Read more US\u2019s Own Intelligence Finds Further Strikes on Iran Are Futile, Report Says<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump vowed to make Iran pay \u201cmany times over\u201d for every death of a U.S. soldier in the war \u2014 an action that, if carried out, would likely constitute a war crime.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, CENTCOM announced the three latest deaths of U.S. service members in the war, upping the total number killed to 17 soldiers. The Department of Defense (DOD) also announced on Monday that around 100 U.S. troops have been injured in the U.S.\u2019s unauthorized war on Iran in the past two weeks. Estimates of total injuries on the U.S. side range from 400 to 500 service members since late February. <\/p>\n

In response to announcements of the deaths \u2014 one of which was made shortly before Trump took part in celebrations at the World Cup final \u2014 Trump vowed retribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!\u201d Trump wrote in his post, adding that the directive \u201chas been passed on to Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Daniel Caine, and every Leader in the Military.\u201d <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s threat to disproportionately attack Iran over U.S. casualties may amount to a violation of international humanitarian law. Trump has also promised strikes on civilian infrastructure, which could amount to additional war crimes. The U.S.-Israeli coalition has already targeted civilian sites in Iran, including in the bombing of an elementary school in Minab that killed at least 168 people. <\/p>\n

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Since the deterioration of the U.S.\u2019s Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran earlier this month, the U.S. has bombed Iran almost every night.<\/p>\n

Iran recently announced that the joint U.S.-Israeli war has killed at least 50 Iranian residents since hostilities ramped up, bringing the total number of Iranians killed to 3,500 people. U.S.-Israeli strikes on the country are estimated to have injured around 25,000 Iranian residents, though the exact figures are unknown. <\/p>\n

The war has also had an enormous economic cost. With Iran taking control of the Strait of Hormuz, through which around 20 percent of the world\u2019s oil is transported, gas prices have spiked, with the average cost of regular grade gasoline above $4 per gallon in the U.S. as of Tuesday. Experts have also attributed rising inflation rates in recent months to the war, with indicating that costs for goods have gone up by 3.5 percent compared to a year ago. And in terms of federal spending, estimates indicate that the United States has spent over $100 billion on the war.<\/p>\n

At the onset of hostilities, Trump suggested that the war would last \u201cfour to five weeks.\u201d The U.S. war on Iran \u2014 which never received congressional authorization, in violation of the Constitution and the War Powers Act \u2014 is now close to entering its sixth month, with no end in sight.<\/p>\n

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