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US and Israel Pound Iran - Heaviest Strikes Yet

The United States and Israel launched a concentrated wave of airstrikes across Iran in the heaviest combined attacks reported so far, signaling a major escalation in the campaign and raising global energy and security fears.

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140 - US service members reported wounded so far in Iran war

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"If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY" — President Donald Trump

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