U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran have killed more than 3,000 Iranians since Feb. 28, the head of Iran’s Forensic Medicine Organization, Abbas Masjedi, told Mizan, the Iranian judiciary’s official news agency, on Thursday.
Masjedi said 40% of the victims were «unidentified,» citing the type of attacks and weapons used as the reason for this. He didn’t specify how many of those killed were military-affiliated or civilians.
A government supporter weeps during a mourning ceremony marking the 40th day since the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S. and Israel strikes in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2026.
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This is the first time since early March that an Iranian official has provided a total death toll of the ongoing war.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency — a U.S.-based group that relies on a network of activists in Iran for its reporting — reported on Tuesday that at least 3,636 people had been killed across the country since Feb. 28, including at least 1,701 civilians, of whom 254 were children.
-ABC News’ Somayeh Malekian
