{"id":21044,"date":"2026-09-03T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/trump-confirms-18-us-military-deaths-in-iran-war\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T15:06:36","slug":"trump-confirms-18-us-military-deaths-in-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/trump-confirms-18-us-military-deaths-in-iran-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Confirms 18 US Military Deaths in Iran War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has rejected his commerce secretary&#8217;s claim that no American military personnel were killed in the Iran war, saying that 18 Americans were killed in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks came after the US commerce secretary said that nobody was killed in the war in Iran. Trump, however, wrote in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he had Venezuela in mind when making those remarks.<\/p>\n<p>In the same post, Trump added that 18 people were killed in the war against Iran. He gave no further details about the identities of those killed or when the casualties occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Truth Social is a social media network owned by Donald Trump, which he has repeatedly used to state political positions and respond to domestic and international events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says 18 American military personnel were killed in the Iran war, rejecting a US commerce secretary&#8217;s claim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}