Three US service members have been killed in action in Iran as part of President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.

US Central Command announced the deaths on Sunday morning, just one day after Trump ordered a series of deadly strikes targeting Iranian leadership.

‘Several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions — and are in the process of being returned to duty,’ US Central Command wrote on X. ‘Major combat operations continue and our response effort is ongoing.’

‘The situation is fluid, so out of respect for the families, we will withhold additional information, including the identities of our fallen warriors, until 24 hours after next of kin have been notified.’

Following the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran has responded by launching a barrage of attacks against US military bases across the Middle East. 

This morning Iran raised its so-called ‘Red Flag of Revenge’ and vowed to hit the US and Israel with a ‘force never experienced before’. 

Trump addressed the American people on camera from his Mar-a-Lago estate shortly after the military strikes began on Saturday morning. 

The president warned that US troops could lose their lives in the operation, adding that ‘we may have casualties.’

A US official told media outlets that the war with Iran is now expected to last weeks, but Trump has not provided a clear timeline on the matter. He later told CNBC on Sunday that the operation against Iran is ‘ahead of schedule.’ 

The Daily Mail has reached out to the White House for comment.  

Trump’s previous military strikes against Iran have been brief operations designed to not entangle the US in a prolonged regime change war with Tehran.

However, Saturday’s attack marks the first time Trump has unleashed America’s firepower in the Middle East with the goal of ending a country’s government.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed to have attacked a US aircraft carrier in revenge for the killing of the country’s Supreme Leader, as it launches drone attacks across the Middle East today.

State media carried a statement claiming the USS Abraham Lincoln had been attacked with ‘four ballistic missiles’. The Pentagon later denied the Lincoln had been hit but said missiles had been fired that ‘did not even come close’.

Iran has also retaliated with a series of strikes across its neighboring Gulf states, with explosions heard in Qatar, Israel, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman and Saudi Arabia.

Trump promised to strike Iran ‘with a force that has never been seen before,’ after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced they had attacked nearly 30 US military bases across the Middle East on Sunday morning.

It was revealed today that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has also been killed in airstrikes, according to Israeli state TV.

Black smoke was seen rising from a US airbase at Erbil International Airport in northern Iraq at sunrise, after the IRGC promised their most ferocious counterattack.

Israel announced in the early hours of Sunday that it had begun a new ‘strike wave’ targeting Iran’s ballistic missiles and aerial defense systems, after Iran launched drones and missiles at Tel Aviv, which were intercepted and shot down.

In response, the IRGC said it was carrying out a ‘sixth wave’ of ‘extensive missile and drone’ attacks on 27 US military bases. The extent of the damage is not yet clear.

It comes as Iran formally confirmed that Khamenei was killed in his home office. ‘To Allah we belong and to Him we shall return,’ an Iranian news agency said.

Two high-level military leaders – Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani, and commander of the IRGC Maj. Gen. Mohammad Pakpour – and four of Khamenei’s close family were also obliterated in the Tehran strikes on Saturday morning.