Lutnick retracts claim of no American deaths in Iran conflict, apologizes
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick apologized after claiming that there hadn’t been American deaths in the Iran conflict; in reality, 18 U.S. service members have died since the U.S. began strikes in February, with hundreds wounded. Lutnick said he misspoke, conflating Iran with a separate Venezuelan operation, and expressed sympathy to the families of the fallen amid ongoing scrutiny of death tallies from the conflict.
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