DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's government has issued
a new death toll for its war with Israel, saying at least 1,060
people were killed and warning that the figure could rise.
Saeed Ohadi, the head of Iran's Foundation of Martyrs and
Veterans Affairs, gave the figure in an interview aired by
Iranian state television late Monday.
Ohadi warned the death toll may reach 1,100 given how severely
some people were wounded.
During the war, Iran downplayed the effects of Israel's 12-day
bombardment of the country, which decimated its air defenses,
destroyed military sites and damaged its nuclear facilities.
Since a ceasefire took hold, Iran slowly has been acknowledging
the breadth of the destruction, though it still has not said how
much military materiel it lost.
The Washington-based Human Rights Activists group, which has
provided detailed casualty figures from multiple rounds of
unrest in Iran, has said 1,190 people were killed, including 436
civilians and 435 security force members. The attacks wounded
another 4,475 people, the group said.
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