Iran’s state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs announced on Saturday that the ongoing war with the United States and Israel has resulted in the deaths of more than 3,400 individuals within the Islamic Republic.
This announcement comes amid a two-week ceasefire in the conflict, which erupted in late February following US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.
Ahmad Mousavi, the head of the Foundation, was quoted by the ISNA news agency as stating that 3,468 “martyrs… fell during the recent conflict.”
A previous toll released by the head of the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization on April 12 indicated that 3,375 people in Iran had been killed in the war.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on April 7 that at least 3,636 individuals had died, including 1,701 civilians—among them at least 254 children—as well as 1,221 military personnel and 714 individuals whose status remains unclassified.
Due to reporting restrictions, AFP is unable to access the sites of strikes or independently verify casualty figures in Iran.
Credit: AFP
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