Key facts
- Democrats are urging Donald Trump to de-escalate the conflict with Iran following the deaths of three US troops.
- US forces have launched a tenth consecutive wave of attacks against Iranian targets.
- Iran's Revolutionary Guards claimed to have targeted US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait.
- At least 17 US service members have been killed since the war began on February 28.
- Donald Trump is imposing 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods.
Democrats have seized on the killing of three US troops in Iranian strikes to urge Donald Trump to reverse his resumption of the war with Iran. Amid widespread anxiety over climbing casualties, Senator Chris Murphy accused the president of having “frighteningly lost control of this war.”
Even as US forces launched a 10th consecutive wave of attacks against Iranian targets, concern over the deaths of American service personnel threatened to complicate moves to escalate the conflict, which has reignited after Trump last week walked away from a memorandum of understanding agreed with Iran in June.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday they had targeted US military sites, including air defence systems and a radar installation in Bahrain and Kuwait, while the crew of a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz reported being struck by an unknown projectile. Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan said they had activated defences to repel the attacks.
The latest casualties brought the number of US service members killed since the start of the war on February 28 to at least 17. More than 1,700 Iranian civilians are estimated to have been killed. Nearly 100 US service members have been injured over the last two weeks of escalating strikes.
Separately, Donald Trump is imposing 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods in response to the country retaliating against previous US tariffs, the White House announced. The administration declared Canada has unfairly discriminated against US cars, alcohol, and dairy products. The supreme court ruled in February that Trump had illegally used emergency executive powers to impose his global tariffs, and the US has been forced to pay back $81bn in tariffs so far this fiscal year.