“During the recent imposed war, the bodies of 3,375 martyrs were identified by the Legal Medicine Organization using scientific and specialised methods,” said Abbas Masjedi, state news agency IRNA reporte
He said the toll included 2,875 males and 496 females, without specifying if they were adults or children, according to the agency.
Due to reporting restrictions, AFP is not able to access the sites of strikes nor to independently verify tolls in Iran.
Thousands of people have been killed across the Middle East in the Iran war, which began when the U.S. and Israel struck Iran on February 28. Those strikes triggered Iranian attacks on Israel, U.S. bases and the Gulf states, while opening a new front in Lebanon.
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More than 3,000 people were killed throughout Iran during the war, Iran's forensic chief told state media on Thursday.
U.S.-based rights group HRANA said 3,636 people have been killed since the war erupted. It said 1,701 of those were civilians, including at least 254 children.
The group said on Wednesday it will stop publishing daily reports on attacks and casualties on the back of the "change in the situation on the ground and the uncertainty surrounding whether the ceasefire will hold or collapse."
The Iranian military said at least 104 people were killed in a U.S. attack on an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka on March 4.
Lebanese authorities say at least 1,830 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since March 2. The heaviest Israeli bombardment of the war in Lebanon on April 8 killed more than 300 people.
At least 14 Lebanese soldiers have been killed since March 2 in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, with most of the casualties in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese army. Thirteen state security personnel were also killed in an Israeli strike on a government building in the southern city of Nabatieh on April 10, the Lebanese presidency said.
More than 400 fighters from Hezbollah have been killed since the Lebanese armed group launched attacks in a new war with Israel on March 2, two sources familiar with the group's count told Reuters. It is unclear if the death toll reported by the authorities includes those fighters.