Of the 3,375 people Iran says died in the war with the United States and Israel, 2,875 were men, 496 were women, and four could not be identified. Abbas Masjedi, who runs the country’s forensic service, gave the breakdown as reported on April 20, 2026. Among the dead, 383 were children or teenagers up to 18.
The figure came from the Legal Medicine Organization, which AFP said had put the toll at 3,375 on April 12. The count ran from the first day of the war to the last hour of April 10, a period Iranian outlets have taken to calling the “Ramadan War”.
Who died, and where
The age tables are stark. People aged 19 to 30 made up 969 of the dead, and those aged 31 to 40 another 792. Children between 1 and 12 accounted for 255. Tehran, Hormozgan and Isfahan provinces recorded the heaviest losses, in that order.
Identification was slow. The forensic chief said roughly 40% of the bodies could not be recognised at first because of the missiles and bombs used by American and Israeli forces. Teams eventually named nearly all of them and handed the remains back to families.
A figure that others do not match
It is not the only number in circulation. On April 19, the state Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs gave 3,468. Its head, Ahmad Mousavi, said that many “martyrs” had fallen in the recent conflict, according to the ISNA news agency. The announcement came during a two-week ceasefire.
The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, HRANA, counted higher still: at least 3,636 deaths as of April 7. Its tally listed 1,701 civilians, among them at least 254 children, plus 1,221 military personnel and 714 people whose status it could not determine.
Nobody outside the country can settle the gap. AFP noted that reporting restrictions keep journalists away from strike sites inside Iran, so none of these figures has been checked independently. The AP, in its own account of the forensic announcement, observed that it was unclear whether the 3,375 includes members of the security forces, given how heavily military installations were bombed.
Sources
- Iran Reports 3,468 Deaths in Conflict with US and Israel (ARY News, AFP report)
- Iran Reports 3,375 Deaths in Conflict with Israel and US (Devdiscourse, AP copy)
- Iran Releases Final Death Toll of 'Ramadan War': 3,375 Killed (WANA)
