Reported Iranian military deaths from US strikes this week rise to 13

Iran’s reported military death toll from US strikes this week has risen to at least 13, after the semi-official Tasnim news agency said six regular military personnel were killed in southern Iran.

Tasnim said the six included three pilots but gave no further details about the location. It had earlier reported that Tuesday’s strikes killed three Basij members on Lavan Island in the Gulf. Their funeral took place in southern Iran on Wednesday. A statement published by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Wednesday said four members of its Aerospace Force died in western Iran.

The strikes on Tuesday were described as the most extensive in weeks. Iranian military casualties in the conflict, which began in late February, have been reported periodically without official confirmation of an overall toll. The war began with US and Israeli strikes on Iran and has killed thousands of people, most of them in Iran and Lebanon.

Iran has also highlighted civilian losses. An Iranian Health Ministry official said on X that 18 people were killed and 142 wounded between August 30 and September 2. The dead included four people attending a wedding. Tasnim separately reported that US strikes in southern Iran on Sunday, after a month-long lull in clashes, killed three people. Iran’s Nournews identified two of them as members of the IRGC Navy.

The United States has reported that 18 of its military personnel have been killed and more than 750 wounded in the war.