Senate Democrats stepped up pressure on Republicans to conduct public hearings on the conduct of the Iran war, but senior GOP senators were noncommittal on whether they would do so.
The partisan tension comes as the Pentagon announced Tuesday that approximately 140 troops have been injured since the U.S. and Israeli strikes began on Feb. 28, in addition to seven U.S. military combat deaths due to Iranian strikes.
Iranian deaths exceed 1,000 by most estimates, including perhaps 175 killed in what all signs suggest was an errant U.S. missile strike on an elementary school in the Iranian town of Minab. If American culpability in the strike is confirmed, the accident would be among the deadliest civilian casualty events in U.S. military history.
