Seven Iranian army personnel were killed and 13 others wounded in what the military described as the first direct US attack on the Iranian army since the current conflict began, after a missile strike hit a barracks in southeastern Iran early Wednesday, Anadolu reports. State broadcaster IRIB reported that the US military fired 13 missiles at a residential area and accommodation facility at a barracks of the Iranian army’s ground forces in the city of Bampur, in Sistan and Baluchestan province. The Iranian army said seven members of the 388th Brigade were killed and 13 others were injured in the attack, while several others were wounded and are receiving medical treatment. The military condemned the strike and vowed a “decisive response” […]
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