"Trump has asked the Pentagon to reject and delay reports of brain damage from Iran's missile strike on Iraq last year," Alyssa Farah, a former Pentagon spokeswoman, told the Guardian. "Almost 80 percent of American casualties were able to return to work after a few days," he said.

The head of the Taliban government, Mohammad Hassan Akhund, said in his first interview with Al-Jazeera that the war in Afghanistan was over and the Taliban controlled the entire country. He called on former Afghan officials to return to the country, calling the Taliban a "kind and compassionate" group.

Former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter to refer to the "strategic catastrophe" in Afghanistan and wrote: "No domestic or foreign power has been able to overcome this zealous nation by force. Three superpowers tried this method and failed with humiliation. "The fate of any claimant to a coercive government will be no other than this."
The Student Union Council of the Ministry of Health announced the death of three medical students on Thursday Saber Moloudi, a student at Rafsanjan University, died of coronary heart disease, Yasman Elahi, a intern at Ahvaz University, died of an accident, and Anahita Shahrasbi, an emergency resident of Sina Hospital, died of cardiac arrest.
The new governor of Khuzestan, Sadegh Khalilian, said on Thursday after his introduction that he had prepared a five-year plan to solve the problems of this province. Ibrahim Ra'isi had promised to elect a special governor for Khuzestan, and Khalilian, who was Ahmadinejad's minister of agriculture, was eventually appointed to the post.