Iran acknowledged Sunday that an Israeli strike in the infamous Evin prison of Tehran last week killed dozens of people.
The spokesperson for the judiciary of Iran, Asghar Jahangir, placed on the official Mizan News News Agency website that killed the strike at least 71 people, including staff, soldiers, prisoners and members of visiting families. Officials did not give a breakdown of figures from victims.
The Human Rights Activists in Iran, established in Washington, said that at least 35 of the dead were employees and were two prisoners. Others were killed a person who walked in prison of prison and a woman who was going to meet a judge about the case of her prisoner, the organization said.
Jahangir said that some of the injured people were treated on the spot, while others were taken to hospitals. Iran did not say how much injured.
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A display shows the aftermath of an Israeli strike in the Evin prison that took place on June 23 in Tehran, Iran. (Majid Asgaripour/Wana (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)
Iran had also confirmed on Saturday that the top officer of Justice Ali Ghanaatkar was killed in the attack. The persecution of Ghanatkar from dissidents, including the Nobel Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, had led to widespread criticism by human rights groups.
Saviders search by the rubble of a damaged part of the evin prison after an Israeli strike the day before, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mostafa Roudaki/Mizan News Agency)
Israel carried out the strike on June 23, because the Ministry of Defense said that the “regime objectives and repression of the government in the heart of Tehran” attacked. It was known that the facility has many political prisoners and dissidents of Iran.
The prison attack came near the end of 12 days of Israeli strikes, of which Israel claimed that he killed around 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists, while hit eight nuclear -related facilities and more than 720 military infrastructure locations.
The office building in the Evin prison is damaged in Tehran, Iran, Sunday 29 June after an Israeli strike on June 23. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iran’s nuclear capacities are crushed, but the desire of the regime for the bomb can continue to exist
The status of the nuclear program of Iran remains unclear, even after President Donald Trump said that American strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear capacities on 22 June.
Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told CBS ‘Face the Nation’ in an interview on Sunday that the capacity of Iran remains, but it is impossible to assess the full damage to the nuclear program, unless inspectors have not been allowed.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director -General Rafael Grossi attends an IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Gruber)
“It is clear that there has been serious damage, but in the first place it is not total damage. And secondly, Iran has the capacities there, industrial and technological capacities. So if they wish, they will be able to start again,” Grossi said.
Grossi said that Iran could turn centrifuges to spin enriched uranium “in a matter of months”.
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“To be honest, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and that there is nothing,” he said.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
