Pentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent four

The Pentagon's official online list of service members killed in the ongoing Iran war does not include the four soldiers who died during renewed fighting over the weekend. Three military officials told the Times that one reason behind the change was that the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April. A Pentagon spokesperson disputed that contention, telling the Times that the decreased total of service members killed was due to 'temporary data disruptions' that would be quickly fixed. Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman of Kentucky, suggested that the reason the Pentagon death toll for the Iran war excludes the four soldiers killed in the past week is that the Trump administration claims that the war technically ended in June, when Trump signed a temporary ceasefire with Iran over dinner at the palace of Versailles. 'Let me explain this absurd ruse: The Pentagon is pretending there have been two Iran wars separated by a brief cease-fire,' Massie wrote on social media.