A seventh US service member has been killed as the war between Iran and America rages on.
The unidentified service member died after being ‘seriously wounded’ during an Iranian attack on US troops in Saudi Arabia on March 1, the US Central Command said on Sunday afternoon.
The agency said the fallen soldier’s identity will be withheld for 24 hours following the contact of next of kin.
The tragic news comes a day after President Donald Trump attended the first dignified transfer ceremony for those killed in the Iran war on Saturday.
He traveled to Dover Air Force Base, where the remains of six US service members who died in Kuwait were returned to their families.
The six Americans who were killed Sunday were Army reservists with the 103rd Sustainment Command based out of Des Moines, Iowa.
Nicole Amor, 39, Cody Khork, 35, Declan Coady, 20, Robert Marzan, 54, Jeffrey O’Brien, 45 and Noah Tietjens, 42, died in the conflict.
The President told the Daily Mail during a phone interview last week that he was open to going, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt making the plan official during her briefing on Wednesday.
It marked the President’s second trip to Dover for this type of military ceremony during his second term.
Trump also attended one in December to pay tribute to two US Army soldiers and their US civilian interpreter who were killed by an ISIS-affiliated gunman in Syria.
The President attended just four dignified transfer ceremonies during his first term, which sometimes put him in political hot water.
Just weeks into his first term, Trump went to his first dignified transfer ceremony on February 1, 2017, where Bill Owens, the father of the slain William ‘Ryan’ Owens, refused to shake the President’s hand.
The elder Owens was enraged that Trump had approved a raid in Yemen just six days into his term.
‘For two years prior, there were no boots on the ground in Yemen – everything was missiles and drones – because there was not a target worth one American life. Now, all of a sudden, we had to make this grand display?’ Bill Owens told the Miami Herald.
Bill Owens and his wife sat in a room away from Trump when the President was conducting greetings.
Trump did not return to Dover for another dignified transfer ceremony until nearly two years later – on January 19, 2019.
Once Biden was in office, his own conduct at a dignified transfer ceremony also became a political problem.
Amid the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, 13 US service members were killed in a terror attack outside the Kabul International Airport.
During the August 2021 dignified transfer ceremony for the 13 Americans killed, the Democrat was seen looking at his watch on several occasions, sparking fury online among veterans and GOP commentators.
The violent US-Israeli war with Iran continued on Sunday, with Iran launching a series of ballistic missiles and drones at the United Arab Emirates and Israel in retaliation for the overnight bombardment in Tehran.
At least six people are injured in Israel, including one seriously, as a result of the barrage.
Trump has gone on to promise that the US will dial up the attacks.
On Sunday, it was also revealed that the head of Iran’s Military Office Abu al-Qassem Baba’iyan has been killed in the latest wave of attacks, the IDF claimed on X.
The military official was also the Chief of Staff of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters.
He is the latest major figure in the regime to be killed in Israeli strikes.
Trump announced when the war first broke out that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in an airstrike.
