More than 300 US troops wounded in Trump’s Iran war as grim battlefield reality emerges amid ground invasion fears

More than 300 American soldiers have been injured during President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

US Navy Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for Central Command, told the Daily Mail that approximately 303 soldiers were injured during Operation Epic Fury, which will extend into a month-long conflict tomorrow.

Of these, 273 have returned to duty, while 10 are still seriously injured.

That’s more than double the 140 injured soldiers the Pentagon reported on March 10.

Some Republicans even fear that Trump could launch a major ground offensive that could lead to large numbers of American deaths.

13 American soldiers have lost their lives since February 28, when Trump ordered the first strike against Iran.

The president has traveled to Dover Air Force Base twice in recent weeks to monitor the dignified transfers where soldiers’ remains return to the United States and are reunited with their families.

At the White House on Friday, the President held a big event for farmers on the South Lawn and admired a gold tractor on display.

President Donald Trump (R) hosted farmers at the White House for an event featuring a large golden tractor (left) on the South Lawn early Friday. “By the way, you have to understand that we are doing really well in Iran,” he told the group.

“By the way, just so you understand, we’re doing really well in Iran,” he said, to applause and cheers from the group.

The president on Thursday postponed a larger military strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and gave the Iranians until April 6 to strike a deal with the United States.

He had previously set the deadline as today.

Still, the price of crude oil rose above $100 a barrel and stocks fell on Friday.

The United States presented Iran with a 15-point ceasefire plan, with special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law leading negotiations and Pakistan mediating.

Trump and U.S. officials did not specifically say with whom in the Iranian government they were negotiating.

Some Iranian officials have publicly denied that negotiations with the United States are ongoing.

At Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, attended by Witkoff, Trump announced that the ‘gift’ he had mocked from Iranian negotiators was allowing 10 oil ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Soldiers carry the casket of a deceased soldier arriving at Dover Air Force Base on March 9. Thirteen American soldiers were killed and more than 300 were injured during Operation Epic Fury.

Residents and emergency workers walk through the rubble following an airstrike on a building in Tehran, Iran. President Donald Trump’s military campaign will last a month tomorrow

Iran’s military actions in the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping lane, have driven up oil prices and prompted Trump to complain loudly about his allies’ lack of willingness to help, especially NATO members.

Trump had not warned his allies in advance that he planned to join Israel in striking Iran.

But Secretary of State Marco Rubio left a meeting with G7 counterparts in France on Friday pledging to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz.

He told the group that the US ‘does not want anyone to join the war’ but that countries affected by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz ‘have to be willing to do something about it and we will help them’.

Rubio suggested this would happen after the conflict ends.

“This will not be a long-term conflict,” Rubio told reporters after the meeting when asked about the build-up of US troops in the region.

The Secretary of State then outlined a number of US objectives in Iran; these included shrinking the military to the point where ‘they could never hide behind these things to get nuclear weapons’.

‘We can do it; “We are achieving all these goals,” he said. ‘We are ahead of schedule on most of these and can achieve them without the need for ground troops.’

He added that the deployment of thousands of Marines and other troops was so the President could be prepared for “multiple contingencies.”

‘But we can achieve all our goals without ground troops, but we will always be ready to give the President maximum options and maximum opportunity to adapt to unforeseen circumstances should they arise,’ he said.