India, March 8 -- The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has flatly rejected Iranian claims that American soldiers were captured during the ongoing conflict in one-line calling the allegations "lies and deceptions."

The statement came after Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, suggested that several US troops had been taken prisoner and that Washington was allegedly hiding the incident by reporting them as killed.

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