The Pentagon on Tuesday identified four of the six US service members killed by an Iranian drone strike during Operation Epic Fury.
Capt. Cody Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Fla.; Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Neb.; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minn.; and Sgt. Declan Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, died in the attack on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait Sunday.
The soldiers were all assigned to the Army Reserve’s 103rd Sustainment Command, which is based in Des Moines, Iowa.
Trump shares ‘worst case’ scenario of someone taking over Iran after Ayatollah Khamenei killed
President Trump said Tuesday that the “worst case” scenario in his war with Iran is someone “as bad as” assassinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei taking power — but that he still prefers “somebody from within” taking the reins.
“I guess the worst case would be we do this, and then somebody takes over who’s as bad as the previous person,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he hosted German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
“That could happen. We don’t want that to happen,” the president said.
“That would probably be the worst: You go through this, and then in five years you realize you put somebody in that was no better. So we’d like to see somebody in there that’s going to bring it back for the people.”
Trump said exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi, 65, isn’t at the top of his list, despite his prominence in the opposition movement.
“Some people like him, and we haven’t been thinking too much about that,” Trump said.
