The head of Iran’s National Security Council had claimed the US was misrepresenting the captures as combat deaths.
Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s National Security Council, claimed that his country has captured United States soldiers since the outbreak of war last week.
The comments came in a post on Saturday on the social media platform X, in which Larijani suggested the US was concealing the captures.
“It has been reported to me that several American soldiers have been taken prisoner,” Larijani wrote.
“But the Americans claim that they have been killed in action. Despite their futile efforts, the truth is not something they can hide for too long.”
The US military, however, quickly refuted the claims wit
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