Iran: 81,365 civilian sites damaged by US-Israeli strikes — water and energy infrastructure 'heavily' hit

Iranian officials released the first comprehensive civilian damage figures on Day 23. ENERGY MINISTER (Abbas Aliabadi, via ISNA): 'The country's vital water and electricity infrastructure has suffered heavy damage following terrorist and cyber attacks by the United States and the Zionist regime. The attacks targeted dozens of water transmission and treatment facilities and destroyed parts of critical water supply networks.' Repair efforts under way. RED CRESCENT CHIEF (Pirhossein Kolivand): Total damaged civilian sites: 81,365 (latest field assessment). Includes residential and commercial units, schools, medical centers, vehicles. VERIFICATION NOTE: AFP has not been able to access sites or verify figures outside Tehran. Journalists in Tehran have reported damage to multiple sites. Iranian figures should be treated as contested but directionally significant. SIGNIFICANCE: First official Iranian acknowledgment of scale of civilian infrastructure damage. If broadly accurate, represents one of the most destructive conventional air campaigns against a major country's civilian infrastructure in modern history. The figures reinforce WHO and IAEA concerns about cascading humanitarian impacts.