🔸 Head of the Forensic Medicine Organization claimed: 3,519 people were killed in the recent war

Abbas Masjedee, head of the Forensic Medicine Organization, said on Sunday, 18 Mordad, at a press conference with journalists, that the exact number of people killed during attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran was 3,519.

According to the Young Journalists Club, Masjedee said that "of this number, 3,002 were men and 517 were women," and referred to a missile attack on the Shajare Tayyeba school in the city of Minab, claiming that, in total, 270 of those killed in the attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran were "students."

Masjedee added that 38 of the fatalities from these attacks were under five years of age, and that there is also a "3-day-old newborn and even a fetus in the womb of the mother" in this list.

The head of the Forensic Medicine Organization also, in another part of his remarks, referred to the killing of another number of people over the past two or three weeks during attacks on the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, Chabahar, Hormozgan, and Bushehr.

DW Farsi cannot independently verify the figures provided by officials in the Islamic Republic about the war dead.