Iran
Iranian Red Crescent volunteers working in a Tehran neighborhood hit by a repeated Israeli strike on June 14, 2025. Photo: Iranian Red Crescent/AFP
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Dozens of Iranian civilians have been killed in Israel’s attacks, including eight athletes, a university student, children, and women, according to Iranian media reports.
Twenty women and children were killed in a Friday morning attack on a residential building in Shahid Chamran, Tehran, Fars News agency reported, adding that their bodies were pulled out from under the rubble.
The report said that around 10 to 15 more people remain trapped under the rubble.
Tehran’s Shahid Chamran is a residential neighborhood housing military-linked families. Footage shared by Fars News shows extensive destruction of buildings in the area.
Several athletes have also been reported killed.
“Remember their names: Amir Ali Amini (17, taekwondo), Parsa Mansour (paddle sports), Niloufar Qalehvand (pilates instructor), Mehdi Poladvand (horse rider). Murdered by Israeli bombs in their homes,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei.
Another boxing champion, Ali Baghernia, and Muay Thai coach and champion Hamid Salari, both from Lorestan province, have been reported dead.
Reza Bahrami, a boxer from Kermanshah province, was also reported killed in the attacks.
An electrical engineering student at the University of Science and Technology, Mehdi Akbari Nasab, and his wife were also killed.
At least three Israelis have been reported killed by Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes. The Times of Israel named two of the dead as Yisrael Aloni, 73, and Etti Cohen Engel.
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