US death toll in Iran war reaches seven as service member dies of March attack injuries

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Iranian state TV on Sunday announced that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor. He has been considered a contender long before his father at the beginning of the war, despite never being elected or appointed to a government position.

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard answers to the supreme leader, and Khamenei will have the last say in war strategy.

U.S. President Donald Trump told ABC News earlier on Sunday he wants a say in who comes to power once the war is over and that a new leader “is not going to last long” without his approval, he said.

The U.S. military announced an American service member died due to injuries sustained during an Iranian attack on troops that were stationed in Saudi Arabia. The seventh American service member killed in the Iran war was an Army soldier, a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press.

The service member died on Saturday from injuries sustained during a March 1 Iranian attack on the kingdom. The American death toll since the start of the military operations climbed up to seven. All seven casualties from Iran were Army soldiers; the first six deaths were Army reservists killed in a March 1 attack on a command center in a Kuwaiti port.