General Discussion

They know that the US is not reporting their casualties, and likely know some are unaccounted for, is my guess. Tehran said something very odd: the US is reporting some of the captured as KIA.

But the US has only officially reported 6 KIA, all from the Kuwait strike.

I suppose we can just chalk it up to "There go the Iranians with their lies again," which is the official CENTCOM response, but that doesn't really explain the specificity and content of the supposed lie. I do think that if the Iranians had POWs hey would be parading them on television, but the whole "We have prisoners, but the US is reporting them as KIA" is somewhat more strange than that.