Iran's Health Ministry said 1,221 people had been killed and between 9,000 and 10,000 wounded since the start of the US-Israeli military campaign, with 200 of the dead being children and teenagers under 18, ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour told ILNA on March 6.

Kermanpour said approximately 1,500 of the wounded were women and mothers, with the youngest a four-month-old girl from the town of Pol-e Dokhtar.

Some 700 of the injured were under the age of 18, of whom 60 were younger than five. Seven children under seven were among the dead.

The majority of child fatalities were schoolchildren from Minab, where a strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in the opening hours of the conflict killed more than 100 people.

Kermanpour said approximately 20 hospitals had been damaged, along with 18 emergency response stations and 15 ambulances, creating serious difficulties in transporting patients.

He said healthcare facilities had been targeted in recent hours in what he described as a violation of international conventions.

Despite the damage to medical infrastructure, health workers had carried out 700 surgical operations since the conflict began. The ministry said it was working to maintain the distribution of medicine, infant formula and vaccines, and to ensure continued care for pregnant women, newborns and children.

The spokesman said 30 healthy births had taken place in the first four days of the war among families who had fled to northern cities considered safer from the strikes.

Kermanpour warned residents of Tehran that environmental damage from the destruction of buildings and infrastructure posed additional health risks. He urged the elderly, children, pregnant women and those with chronic illnesses to stay indoors and wear masks if they needed to go outside.

The health ministry said its advisory service was issuing regular updates via text message and urged citizens to follow official guidance closely.