US–Iran Conflict

580

estimated total dead

Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.

Military Dead

500 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.

United States — 14 military dead

Iran (IRGC + Nuclear Personnel) — 486 military dead

Civilian Dead

80 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.

Civilian dead — 80

Deadliest Engagements

Strike on Natanz200

incl. 20 civilians

Strike on Isfahan200

incl. 60 civilians

Strike on Fordow120

Iranian Retaliatory Strikes60

For Perspective

How US-Iran's dead compare to other conflicts and events.

US-Iran — total dead580

U.S. military killed (all strikes)14

Estimated Iranian dead at nuclear sites440

Iranian civilian dead (Isfahan vicinity)80

U.S. dead in Gulf War (1991)292

Milestones of Loss

14 dead

14 U.S. service members killed in Iranian retaliatory missile strikes on U.S. bases in Iraq and Qatar

120 dead

Fordow, built inside a mountain to survive conventional strikes — B-2 bunker-busters were the only weapons capable of penetrating it

440 dead

~440 Iranian IRGC guards and nuclear personnel killed across three facilities — the highest-profile targeted killing of technical personnel since WWII

580 dead

~580 total dead — a brief but strategically decisive exchange that altered the Middle East's nuclear balance and prompted global diplomatic crisis

All figures are historical estimates and vary across sources. The true human cost of war is impossible to fully quantify — these numbers represent the best scholarly consensus. Each number was a person with a name, a family, and a life unlived.