Health Ministry: 14 dead, 78 hurt in US strikes across 5 Iranian provinces
Toll announced as US-Iran fighting escalates in the wake of the ceasefire's breakdown
TEHRAN (MNTV) — At least 14 people were killed and another 78 wounded by U.S. strikes on five provinces of Iran over the past two days, Iran’s Health Ministry said Thursday.
Writing on X, the U.S.-based social media platform, Hossein Kermanpour, who directs the ministry’s Public Relations and Information Center, said the United States had carried out attacks on five Iranian provinces on July 8 and 9, and that the death toll so far stood at 14, with 78 injured.
The ministry said 47 of those hurt are still in hospital, with the rest released after treatment.
Iran’s state news agency IRNA, quoting Khuzestan province’s deputy governor for security affairs, Valiollah Hayati, reported that three of the dead were killed in a strike close to Ahvaz in the country’s southwest.
The figures come as hostilities between Washington and Tehran resume following the breakdown of the tenuous ceasefire agreed last month.
The current escalation followed U.S. accusations that Iran had attacked three commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, after which Washington began mounting successive rounds of strikes on Iranian military targets along the southern coastline.
According to U.S. Central Command, the two days of operations hit upwards of 170 military sites, among them air defense systems, coastal surveillance equipment, missile and drone infrastructure, naval assets and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities.
The command said the objective was to deter additional attacks on international shipping.
Tehran has answered with drone and missile strikes on what it describes as US military installations in Bahrain and Kuwait.
On June 17, the two countries concluded a memorandum of understanding mediated by Pakistan, intended to end their military conflict and open the way to a durable peace agreement.
That understanding collapsed Wednesday when U.S. President Donald Trump announced it was “over,” setting off the latest round of military confrontation.
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