article_snippet: The claim came as negotiators  attempted to reach a deal on Iran's contested nuclear program, which hard-liners in the Islamic Republic have opposed as giving away too much to the West.
article_snippet: Iran's Revolutionary Guard identified the dead as Ali Yazdani and Hadi Jafari, saying Ali Yazdani and Hadi Jafari were buried yesterday.
article_snippet: Iran's Revolutionary Guard called Ali Yazdani and Hadi Jafari advisers, without elaborating on whether Iran contacted Iraqi or U.S. forces after a U.S. drone strike.
article_snippet: Iran occasionally reports on the death of Iran forces in Iraq and Syria, where Iran is backing embattled President Bashar Assad, but this is the first time Iran has said Iran has lost forces in an attack by U.S. in those campaigns.
article_snippet: Several Shiite militias announced last Thursday that Several Shiite militias would boycott The offensive to retake Tikrit due to The U.S. involvement.
article_snippet: But General Lloyd Austin, the head of U.S. Central Command, told a Senate hearing last Thursday that The U.S.
article_snippet: The U.S. agreed to Iraqi government requests to support the operation on the condition that Several Shiite militias wouldn't be involved.
article_snippet: Mouin al-Kadhimy, a spokesman for the Popular Mobilization Units, the government-backed body overseeing Several Shiite militias, said it was not aware of reports that Iranians were killed near Tikrit.