Four Democratic senators are investigating accusations that the Pentagon was unprepared for an Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Kuwait that killed six service members.
Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) on Sunday wrote a letter to War Secretary Pete Hegseth suggesting that Washington failed “to take even basic precautions to protect the lives” of service members. The investigation comes after soldiers at the Kuwait facility pushed back on the Pentagon’s assertion that “every possible measure” was taken to protect troops.
“Risks to service members in the region were known, but leadership at DoD failed to take steps to prevent harm that could come from Iran’s retaliation,” the senators wrote. “We are concerned that this is part of a larger pattern in which this administration has failed to protect Americans in the region from Iranian retaliation.”
Iran’s drone attack in Kuwait on March 1
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