This is CNN Breaking News.
The Breaking News this morning, the U.S.
military has just confirmed four more deaths in the war with Iran.
Ahmadi Cornish and the four fallen Americans are crew members of refueling aircraft that went down in western Iraq.
So we're going to get right to it with CNN correspondent Paula Hancock's in Abu Dhabi.
Paula, what are the details, if you have any, about this crash?
Well, Audie,
this is information coming to us from US Central Command confirming that four service members have been confirmed deceased.
They say that this was as a part of a crash of a refueling tanker.
Six people were on board at the time of the crash in western Iraq.
They say that rescue efforts are still continuing and an investigation into what exactly happened is continuing at this point they are withholding the names of those individuals for 24 hours until the next of kin have been notified now what they have said as well is that it quote is not due to hostile fire or friendly fire so at this point it's unclear exactly what happened to this tanker the kc-135 refueling aircraft these kind of aircraft are key to the the war effort by the United States and certainly we will be waiting to hear any more details from US Central Command,
but at this point they have confirmed that four of the six crew members of this refueling tanker have been confirmed dead.
Audie?
We're going to be learning more about this today.
In the meantime, Paula,
I want to ask you about this rally in Tehran because there was a massive explosion by this rally.
What have you learned?
So this is the Quds Day rally,
which is an annual international rally in support of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian cause.
And so what we saw earlier in Tehran,