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More than 50 people have been killed and over 517 wounded in U.S. attacks on Iran since June 27, Iranian Health Ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour said Sunday.
Kermanpour shared the latest casualty figures in a statement on the U.S.-based social media platform X.
He said women and children were among those wounded in the attacks.
Some of the injured remain under treatment in hospitals, while 468 people have been discharged after receiving medical care, Kermanpour said.
The latest figures represented an increase from an update Kermanpour issued July 18.
In that statement, he said 50 people had been killed and more than 500 wounded in U.S. attacks since June 27, including women and children.
The Health Ministry did not provide further details about the locations of the attacks or the identities of those killed and wounded.
The casualty update followed Iran’s decision to suspend its commitments under a memorandum of understanding reached with the United States last month.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said Saturday that Washington had violated and suspended all of its commitments under the memorandum, prompting Tehran to take the same step.
“We were in negotiations. Unfortunately, it was the Americans themselves who, in fact, took these aggressive actions, in violation of their own commitments,” Gharibabadi told Iranian state television.
“We have suspended all of our commitments and are, in fact, no longer implementing them,” he added.
Gharibabadi said Iran’s attention had shifted from negotiations to national defense.
“What we are now faced with is defending our country,” he said.
“We will do so firmly and decisively, and I think the Americans have once again received their response that these aggressive actions by them will get them nowhere,” he added.
Gharibabadi’s comments came days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed the ceasefire was “over” following an Iranian drone attack on a ship traveling through the Strait of Hormuz.
His remarks also echoed comments made Wednesday by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei.
“We currently have no plans for negotiations and remain focused on defending the country,” Baghaei told reporters in Tehran.
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