US–Iran Conflict

5,198

estimated total dead

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

Military Dead

4,100 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.

United States & Israel — 73 military dead

Iran & Allied Militias — 4,027 military dead

Civilian Dead

1,098 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.

Civilian dead — 1,098

Deadliest Engagements

Operation Epic Fury2,400

incl. 700 civilians

The Lebanon Front1,050

incl. 50 civilians

Collapse of the Ceasefire718

incl. 58 civilians

Strike on Natanz200

incl. 20 civilians

Strike on Isfahan200

incl. 60 civilians

Gulf and US Base Strikes180

incl. 100 civilians

Strike on Fordow120

Operation True Promise IV120

incl. 70 civilians

For Perspective

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

US-Iran — total dead5,198

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.