Sri Lanka, June 29 -- Israel's attack on the Evin Prison in Iran's capital Tehran last week killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday (Jun 29).

At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel on Jun 23 struck Tehran's most notorious jail for political prisoners, in a demonstration that it was expanding its targets beyond military and nuclear sites to aim at symbols of Iran's ruling system.

"In the attack on Evin prison, 71 people were martyred including administrative staff, youth doing their military service, detainees, family members of detainees who were visiting them and neighbours who lived in the prison's vicinity," Jahangir said in remarks carried on the judiciary's news outlet Mizan.

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