US air defences overwhelmed? Iran claims 650 American casualties in 48 hours of war

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says the current phase of “True Promise 4” is its biggest show of force in years, with waves of missiles and drones striking U.S. and Israeli targets across the Middle East following the initial Israel–U.S. attacks on Iran. IRGC spokesperson Brigadier General Ali Mohammad Naeini has alleged that over 650 U.S. troops were killed or wounded in the first 48 hours of “revenge strikes,” including about 160 casualties in a single attack, and claims that Iranian intelligence and battlefield reports confirm this toll, though Western sources say there is no evidence for losses on that scale.