Washington Post contradicts data about soldiers killed in the war with Iran

O influential U.S. daily, based on five anonymous officials, points out that there were at least 22 military casualties — four more than those in the Pentagon's public database, known as the Low Defense Analysis System (DCAS).

A sixth officer will have added a reduction to this number, bringing the total dead to 23, since the U.S. and Israeli forces started the war on February 28.

In the Pentagon's DCAS database, there are so far 18 military casualties, as well as more than 820 military wounded in combat, over more than six months.

The discrepancy in numbers and the lack of transparency in this regard have marked the conflict in Iran from the outset and are added to the unpopularity of an intervention with which American public opinion is increasingly discontented by the rise in fuel prices.

At the same time, doubts about the management of the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, have increased in recent months, so much so that Republican Congressman Thomas Massie this week promoted a vote in the House of Representatives to remove him, claiming that he violated the provisions of the 1973 Resolution of War Powers for not obtaining permission from Congress.

Although the vote should have taken place last Thursday, the decision of the mayor, Republican Mike Johnson, to anticipate the stoppage of the proceedings postponed the session until after the mid-term legislative elections, scheduled for November 3.