Iran's government attributed 3,468 wartime deaths as of 13 May via Mehr News, the Iranian state news agency 1. The figure is state-attributed with no independent corroboration from any human rights monitor. Hengaw's wartime register covers only documented individual cases and does not extend to an aggregate state total; its methodology tracks named and confirmed executions, not total conflict deaths.
Iran's internet blackout had exceeded 1,704 cumulative hours as of 11 May , reducing civilian connectivity to roughly 1-4% of normal levels. Any independent monitor operating inside Iran cannot transmit, aggregate, or publish casualty data through channels the government has severed. The 3,468 figure therefore cannot be confirmed or contradicted from within Iran; external corroboration is blocked by the same infrastructure shutdown that produced it.
Hengaw's documentation of the 13 May five-prison execution cluster, plus the Shahbakhsh-Afrashteh executions on 12-13 May , and the ongoing espionage-charge pattern documented from Mashhad to Karaj, represents a partial cross-check on the wartime judicial register. Hengaw's count covers documented individual executions, not battlefield deaths, infrastructure casualties, or civilian deaths from airstrikes; the two figures are not directly comparable.
Governments under active military pressure consistently undercount civilian deaths and overstate military resistance in aggregate figures. Neither direction of adjustment can be verified without independent access. The 3,468 number establishes Tehran's stated baseline; its reliability as an evidence-based count depends on the open access that does not currently exist.
