PressTV.ir – Aug 4, 2026The US Department of War has introduced a new system for “counting” American military casualties from Iran’s retaliation, separating the troops killed or wounded since July 7 from those recorded during the earlier months, a report shows. Combined with the casualties caused from Iranian retaliation to the 40-day aggression, the official casualty count currently stands at 704. Even by the department’s own account, the casualties caused since July 7 represents an 83-percent increase from those incurred previously, it also reported. Department of War spokesperson Sean Parnell has, however, described reports of an effort to withhold information about US casualties as “baseless and malicious.” On July 21, the system listed 500 casualties from the Iranian response to the 40-day aggression.