“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick publicly apologized on Thursday after falsely asserting that no Americans had died during the Trump administration’s war with Iran,” CNN reports.“Lutnick made the claim while defending the war in an interview on CNBC, saying that ‘the way the president is playing Iran, right, there haven’t been American deaths. It’s really just an economic chokeout which the administration is now executing more broadly, and I think it’ll be very effective.'”“In fact, 18 U.S. service members have died since the U.S. first attacked Iran in February. Hundreds more have been wounded.”