Iran: 50 dead after recent US attacks

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Iran: 50 dead after recent US attacks

Updated July 18, 2026 – 1:28 p.mReading time: 1 min.

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Iran reports at least 50 dead and more than 500 injured after US attacks. (archive image) (Source: Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP/dpa/dpa-bilder)

Iran reports at least 50 dead and more than 500 injured after US attacks. The US military is concentrating its attacks primarily on one region.

Since the new escalation in the Persian Gulf, Iran According to government figures, at least 50 people were killed. More than 500 people were injured in the US attacks, as Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpur wrote on X.

According to the spokesman, 460 people have already been discharged from hospital, while 37 remain in hospital treatment.

The government generally only reports civilian casualties. There is no official data on losses among the armed forces.

The US military has primarily attacked Iran’s southern coastal provinces. In the southwestern, oil-rich industrial province of Khuzestan alone, authorities registered attacks on 95 locations in the past 10 days, the Tasnim news agency reported.