Dubai: Israel’s assault on the Evin Jail in Iran’s capital Tehran on June 23 killed 71 individuals, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir stated on Sunday.

On the finish of an air struggle with Iran, Israel struck Tehran’s most infamous jail for political prisoners, in an indication that it was increasing its targets past navy and nuclear websites to goal at symbols of Iran’s ruling system.

“Within the assault on Evin jail, 71 individuals had been martyred together with administrative employees, youth doing their navy service, detainees, members of the family of detainees who had been visiting them and neighbours who lived within the jail’s neighborhood,” Jahangir stated in remarks carried on the judiciary’s information outlet Mizan.

Jahangir had beforehand stated that a part of Evin jail’s administrative constructing had been broken within the assault and folks had been killed and injured. The judiciary added that remaining detainees had been transferred to different prisons in Tehran province.

Evin jail holds quite a few international nationals, together with two French residents detained for 3 years.

“The strike concentrating on Evin jail in Tehran, put our residents Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris in peril. It’s unacceptable,” France’s Overseas Minister Jean-Noel Barrot had stated on social media X after the assault.