A US Army carry team moves a flag-draped transfer case containing the remains of a soldier, who died of injuries sustained from an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, at Dover Air Force Base on March 9, 2026 in Dover, Delaware.

A US senator has warned that hundreds of American soldiers could be killed if the administration of US President Donald Trump even attempts a limited ground invasion of Iran.

Chris Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the remarks in an interview with CNN while commenting on the possibility of sending US ground troops or launching a covert operation to extract and smuggle enriched uranium out of Iran.

The senator further said the war of aggression was costing American taxpayers at least one billion dollars per day.

"This is already a war that is becoming an ongoing disaster. It gets worse if the president is talking about putting ground forces in," the senator said.

"You`re talking at that point about dozens, if not hundreds, of new American casualties," he warned.
Murphy said the Trump administration had no clear picture of the objectives it was pursuing in Iran.

"I think this administration just fails to understand how to achieve any of their objectives, so their objectives shift by the minute. Sometimes we`re pursuing regime change, sometimes we`re not."

The senator said it was almost impossible to eliminate Iran`s indigenous high?tech nuclear program.

"They have been consistent about trying to eliminate Iran`s nuclear program. But what they fail to understand is that you can`t bomb knowledge out of existence.

Even if you were to do something wildly dangerous like putting American ground forces in to try to extract some of their enriched uranium, the knowledge would still remain inside Iran," he said.

The United States and Israel attacked Iran on February 28 in an unprovoked act of aggression, assassinating the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and targeting sites across the country, including schools, hospitals, and sports halls.

Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at targets inside the Israeli occupied territories as well as at American bases across the region.