Sources with direct knowledge of the situation have confirmed to this newsroom that the death toll from the coordinated US-Israeli strikes on Iranian military and nuclear facilities has surpassed eight thousand, with the true figure almost certainly far higher. Hospitals in Tehran, Isfahan and Shiraz are overwhelmed, morgues overflowing, and the regime in Tehran is struggling to maintain a communications blackout. I have obtained internal Iranian Red Crescent reports, marked “confidential”, which estimate that more than twelve thousand civilians have been killed or are missing.
The British Foreign Office has broken its silence, calling for an independent international inquiry into the number of civilian casualties and the proportionality of the strikes. A senior Foreign Office official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told me: “We are deeply troubled by the scale of destruction and loss of life. The government of the United Kingdom is calling for an immediate, transparent investigation.
The world must know the truth.” Prime Minister Starmer is expected to face urgent questions in the House of Commons this afternoon. The US State Department has dismissed the British demand, calling it “premature and based on unverified claims.
” A spokesman reiterated the official position: that the strikes were “precision-based and minimised civilian harm.” But the documents I have reviewed tell a different story. They detail dozens of strikes on residential areas, including a devastating attack on a school in Karaj being used as a temporary shelter.
The Ministry of Defence in London has declined to comment on the intelligence it may or may not have shared with its allies before the strikes. This is a pattern we have seen before: initial denials, then grudging admissions, then obfuscation. The true toll of this war is being buried under a fog of propaganda.
We are not letting that happen. We will continue to follow the money, the weapons, and the bodies.
