Iran's Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi said the US strikes of 1 September killed 18 people and wounded 108. Iranian state media itemised the dead by location: four civilians at a wedding in Sirik, seven in Khuzestan province, three fighters of the Basij, Iran's state-run paramilitary volunteer force, on Lavan Island, and four IRGC personnel in Kermanshah province1. Those items add up to the minister's total, while the account carrying them characterises roughly 11 as confirmed. This desk reports both figures, notes the subtraction and resolves neither.
Neither number has been verified from outside. Both come from the state that was struck, and no foreign monitor, hospital record or aid agency has published a count of its own for that night. Where two figures from one government disagree, the useful question is what each was compiled for rather than which is right, and no Iranian source has said.
The itemised list carries the harder detail. A wedding party in Sirik and an air-defence position sit inside the same total, and only the breakdown separates a civilian gathering from a military target. It is also the version the reporting treats as the less certain of the two, which puts the more specific account on the weaker footing.
Iran's parliament speaker told the Majlis security commission on 16 August that Iran had won the war. The health ministry's figure belongs to the same ledger and the same state, and it is the column the victory claim does not mention.
