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Iran's state-run Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs said Saturday that 3,468 people were killed in the war with the United States and Israel, according to comments carried by the ISNA news agency during a two-week ceasefire in the conflict that began in late February.
Ahmad Mousavi, head of the foundation, was quoted by ISNA as saying that 3,468 "martyrs... fell during the recent conflict."
The announcement came during a ceasefire now in its second week in the war, which erupted in late February with U.S.-Israeli strikes on Tehran.
A previous toll issued on April 12 by the head of Iran's Legal Medicine Organization said 3,375 people in Iran had been killed in the war.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, or HRANA, said on April 7 that at least 3,636 people had been killed.
According to HRANA, the dead included 1,701 civilians, among them at least 254 children, as well as 1,221 military personnel and 714 people whose status had not been classified.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) said it was not able to access strike sites or independently verify casualty tolls in Iran because of reporting restrictions.
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