DUBAI, JUN 22 : Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 865 people and wounded 3,396 others, a human rights group said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists offered the figures, which covers the entirety of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It said of those dead, it identified 363 civilians and 215 security force personnel being killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Human Rights Activists, which also provided detailed casualty figures during the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, crosschecks local reports in the Islamic Republic against a network of sources it has developed in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran has not been offering regular death tolls during the conflict and has minimized casualties in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Saturday, Iran’s Health Ministry said some 400 Iranians had been killed and another 3,056 wounded in the Israeli strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Protesters carry Iranian flags during a rally to show solidarity with Iran, in the Shi’ite district of Kazimiyah, in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, June 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Israeli PM Netanyahu congratulates Trump, says US ‘unsurpassed’ after attack on Iran<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Israel’s Airport Authority announced Sunday it was closing the country’s airspace to both inbound and outbound flights in the wake of the US. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency said it was shutting down air traffic ‘due to recent developments’ and did not say for how long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US struck three sites in Iran early Sunday, inserting itself into Israel’s war aimed at destroying the country’s nuclear programme in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe despite fears of a wider regional conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iran said there were \u0093no signs of contamination\u0094 at its nuclear sites at Isfahan, Fordo or Natanz after U.S.airstrikes targeted the facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iranian state media quoted the country’s National Nuclear Safety System Centre, which published a statement saying its radiation detectors had recorded no radioactive release after the strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“There is no danger to the residents living around the aforementioned sites,” the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier Israeli airstrikes on nuclear sites similarly have caused no recorded release of radioactive material into the environment around the facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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