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Iran’s state news agency IRNA says eight members of the country’s armed forces were killed in US strikes on southern Iran, Al Jazeera reports.

According to IRNA, the personnel from the Iranian army’s air and naval forces were killed in Bandar Abbas and Bushehr.

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