The Iranian government announced the official death toll from nationwide protests, state media reported Wednesday.
The Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, a government body responsible for overseeing those killed in conflicts since the 1979 revolution, said 3,117 people were killed, with 2,427 security personnel and civilians.
The figures are based on information received from the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, a forensic body affiliated with the country’s judiciary, it said in a statement.
The foundation said the deaths took place in “terrorist incidents” in recent days that were “reminiscent of the brutal and savage crimes of ISIS (Daesh).”
It looks like the copy editor botched the headline, and the majority killed were security personnel, because I don’t know of any other way to interpret, “3,117 people were killed, with 2,427 security personnel and civilians.”