🔸Pete Gast, the Secretary of Defense of the United States, rejected the report of the Washington Post about the higher number of American soldiers killed in the Iran war than the official statistics of the Pentagon and called it "disgusting and fake" and "a complete lie".
On Saturday, September 28, the Guest wrote on Channel X: "Shame on the Washington Post; they are worse than Iran's state media."
The "Washington Post" newspaper wrote on Friday, September 27, that the number of American soldiers killed in the Iran war "was more than the Pentagon announced."
This newspaper quoted "six American officials familiar with the internal mechanism of the American War Department in the area of casualty calculation" and wrote that five of them, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed that the number of dead was at least 22.
🔸 The Pentagon previously announced the loss of 18 American soldiers in this war.