Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said Tehran was responsible for 17 percent of all U.S. service personnel deaths between 2003 and 2011.
Iran was responsible for the deaths of at least 608 American troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2011, according to a newly revised casualty estimate produced by the Pentagon.
The special representative explained that the new numbers are taken from recently declassified U.S. military documents. The numbers are significantly higher than the roughly 500 confirmed deaths attributed to Iran by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford in 2015. Iran is believed to have provided training at camps inside its own borders, smuggling huge quantities of small arms, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, rockets and other munitions. Multiple survivors and families of those killed have brought legal action against Iran, hoping to receive compensation for the injuries and deaths inflicted by Iranian-supplied weapons.
The U.S. Army has said that Iran appears to have been the only winner of the Iraq War. Tehran now wields significant influence over the government in Baghdad and many of the Shiite militants that once targeted American troops became members of well-armed Popular Mobilization Forces, vital in Iraq's fight against ISIS. As such, Iran holds considerable sway among these groups, and maintains strong links to key politicians who once coordinated anti-American resistance.
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