AT least 1,060 people have been killed in Israel’s attacks on Iran, Tehran said in its official death toll today, warning that the figure could rise.

Saeed Ohadi, the head of Iran’s Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, gave the figure in an interview aired by Iranian state television.

Mr Ohadi warned that the death toll may reach 1,100, given how severely some people were wounded.

Initially, Iran downplayed the effects of Israel’s 12-day bombardment of the country, which decimated its air defences, destroyed military sites and damaged its nuclear facilities.

Since a ceasefire took hold, Iran has slowly been acknowledging the breadth of the destruction, though it still has not said how much military materiel it had lost.

The Washington-based Human Rights Activists group, which has provided detailed casualty figures from multiple rounds of unrest in Iran, has said 1,190 people were killed, including 436 civilians and 435 security force members.

The attacks wounded another 4,475 people, the group said.