Number of Iranian military personnel reported killed by US strikes this week rises to 13
Summarized from yahoo.com
According to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency, the number of Iranian military personnel reported killed by U.S. strikes this week has risen to at least 13. Tasnim reported on Thursday that six additional military personnel, including three pilots, were killed in southern Iran on Tuesday, bringing the total military death toll to 13. Earlier reports from Tasnim indicated that the U.S. strikes on Tuesday also killed three members of the paramilitary Basij on Lavan Island in the Gulf, as well as four members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Aerospace Force in western Iran, as per a statement by the guards published on Wednesday 1.
The article notes that Iranian military casualties in the conflict, which began in late February with U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, have been reported periodically without official confirmation of overall tolls. The war has resulted in thousands of deaths, predominantly in Iran and Lebanon. Additionally, an Iranian health ministry official reported on X that from August 30 to September 2, 18 people, including four attending a wedding, were killed, and 142 were wounded, drawing renewed attention to the civilian death toll. Tasnim also reported that U.S. strikes on southern Iran on Sunday, following a month-long lull in clashes, killed three people, two of whom were identified as members of the IRGC Navy by Iran’s Nournews outlet. The U.S. has reported 18 military personnel killed and more than 750 wounded in the war 1.