Tucker Carlson

It's always a kind of sketchy proposition to cite casualty figures in the middle of a war, because if there's one thing combatants, governments lie about, it's how many people have died.

You could almost never get a straight answer.

Everybody lies about it.

They're lying about it now.

Four and a half years in, we really have no idea how many Russians, Ukrainians, or people from other countries have died in the Russia-Ukraine war.

And we definitely don't know with precision how many people have died in the war with Iran.

But we thought it'd be interesting just to pull up the official numbers to the extent they exist.

We don't know, by the way, with total certainty how many Americans have died.

The official number's maybe 16.

Is that true?

We hope it's no more.

Every death is a tragedy, but we just don't know.

But there are official numbers.

And so, again, just as an exercise, as something that might reveal a deeper truth, we pulled up the numbers a minute ago.

So here are the numbers.

On the Iranian side, the official number is about 3,600, 3,664, about that.

Iranians dead.

Combatants and civilians, majority civilians, as is true in every war, 3,600.

But that's not the biggest total of dead in a country in the last three months since this war broke out in the Middle East, launched by the United States and Israel.

The biggest number of dead is not in Iran.