Vehicles jam a highway as a fire blaze nearby in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran, on June 15, 2025. Israel and Iran exchanged fire on June 14, a day after Israel unleashed an unprecedented aerial bombing campaign that Iran said hit its nuclear facilities, "martyred" top commanders and killed dozens of civilians.—AFP photo

The death toll from Israeli strikes on Iran has risen to 224, with more than 1,200 people injured, according to Iran`s Health Ministry.

“After 65 hours of aggression by the Zionist regime, 1,277 people have been injured. 224 women, men and children have been martyred,” the ministry`s spokesman Hossein Kermanpour, wrote on X, adding that 90 percent of those killed were civilians.

Source: AFP