Lutnick retracts claim of no American deaths in Iran conflict, apologizes
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.