Iran's security chief Ali Larijani has just said on X that his country "will not negotiate with the United States". Larijani is the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and was an adviser to the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In his speech announcing the start of Operation Epic Fury against Iran early on Saturday, Donald Trump clearly laid out the prospect that US service members may fall in the days and weeks ahead. Now, US Central Command has confirmed that three US service members have been killed and five seriously wounded. If American deaths grow, Trump's comments could come back to haunt himThe joint US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran now has an American casualty count, after the Pentagon confirmed that three US military service members had been killed in action.

Source: The Star March 02, 2026 08:21 UTC