Funeral at Behesht Zahra cemetery on 26 March. AFP
The figure came from Abbas Masjedi, the head of Iran’s Legal Medicine Organisation.
Masjedi, quoted by the judiciary’s Mizan news agency and other outlets on Monday, said only four of the dead remain unidentified.
His comments did not break down casualties among civilians and security forces; instead, he just said that 2,875 were male and 496 were female.
Masjedi said 383 of the dead were children, 18 years old and under.
Masjedi’s figures raised questions about whether or not they included security force members, particularly given the levels of intense bombings targeting military bases and arsenals in the country.
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