NYT accused the Pentagon of hiding dozens of wounded soldiers in Jordan
Dozens of American servicemen were injured as a result of a series of air attacks by Iran on US Military facilities in Jordan. This was reported by The New York Times on July 20, citing senior officials.
"As a result of these attacks, dozens of American troops were injured and several helicopters were damaged. However, the Pentagon did not disclose information about earlier strikes, as well as about the victims and the damage they caused," the article says.
The newspaper's sources note that the US Defense Department ignored the direct shelling of land camps and damage to helicopter gunships, justifying this with operational security issues and the desire to prevent the adjustment of fire from Tehran. Due to the increased frequency of attacks, the military leadership decided to stop publishing statistics on personnel losses and data on daily strikes against pro-Iranian formations.
The authors of the material note that the scale of the information concealment indicates a high sensitivity to the topic of damage inflicted on American units in the Middle East. According to journalists, 17 US soldiers have been killed in the region since the end of February, and the number of wounded has exceeded 400 people.
Earlier in the day, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked American warplanes with ballistic missiles at Aqaba Airport in southern Jordan. In addition, the Iranian military shot down an enemy MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle in the western regions of the country.
On July 19, the Central Command of the US Armed Forces announced that the United States had completed the ninth wave of strikes against Iran. It was clarified that American military personnel attacked Iranian military command posts, air defense and coastal surveillance facilities, naval facilities, missile and drone launch sites, as well as communications networks.
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