, April 26 -- Iranian state media on Sunday reported that civilians accounted for around 45 percent of those killed during a 40-day conflict involving Israel and the United States.

The official news agency IRNA, citing Iranian authorities, said the overall death toll reached 3,468, of whom 1,460 were civilians.

Jamshid Nazmi, senior adviser to the head of Iran's Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, disclosed the figures at a press briefing in Tehran, according to IRNA.

He said the civilian casualties included women, men, children and elderly people, adding that nationals from Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Pakistan were also among the dead.

At the same briefing, Farideh Oladqobad, a deputy head of the foundation, said 499 of the ...