Iranian government media reported Wednesday evening that American missile salvos struck a military camp of the Iranian army in the city of Bampur, killing seven soldiers and wounding several others. The report provides the first official Iranian government media attribution of the attack to US missiles, corroborating earlier reports from state TV and IRGC-affiliated sources that seven soldiers were killed at the Bampur base.
Iranian government media reported Wednesday evening that American missile volleys struck a military camp of the Iranian army in Bampur, killing seven soldiers and wounding several others. The report is the first from an official Iranian government media outlet to explicitly attribute the attack to US missiles, marking an escalation in official acknowledgment of the strike.
The report is the latest in a sequence of accounts that The Zioneer has tracked since the early hours of Wednesday. At 00:46 Jerusalem, unverified reports from Iranian opposition channels claimed dozens of casualties at a military camp in Bampor. At 11:13, Iranian state television reported that US airstrikes had killed at least seven soldiers from the 388th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, without specifying the location. At 18:24, an IRGC-affiliated report specified that the attack targeted a ground forces base in Bampur, killing seven soldiers. At 19:18, the Abu Ali Express channel reported that Iran's Health Ministry had updated the overall strike toll to 35 dead and more than 300 wounded, including seven soldiers killed at the Bampur base. The new government media report corroborates these earlier accounts and adds the detail that the attack was carried out by American missile volleys.
The Bampur strike is part of a broader wave of US strikes on Iranian military targets this week. As The Zioneer reported: on July 8, strikes on IRGC naval assets near the Strait of Hormuz killed eight military personnel; on July 9, strikes on Bandar Abbas and Bushehr killed eight; on July 13, a strike on a base in Isfahan province killed and wounded several; and on July 13, a strike on Abadan killed three IRGC members. The Iranian government also reported on July 15 that 30 civilians had been killed in southern Iran.
Independent verification of the specific claims from Bampur and the overall casualty figures across all strikes remains limited.
4 developments
- StrongUS strikes kill at least 7 Iranian troops, state TV reports
- DevelopingAbu Ali Express: Iran's Health Ministry updates strike toll to 35 dead, 300+ wounded, including 7 soldiers at Bampur base
- StrongIranian state TV reports 8 killed in US strikes on Bandar Abbas and Bushehr
- StrongIranian government: 30 civilians killed in US strikes in southern Iran
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