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Iran­ian state TV on Wednes­day is­sued the first of­fi­cial death toll from re­cent protests, say­ing 3,117 peo­ple were killed, while the for­eign min­is­ter is­sued the most di­rect threat yet against the Unit­ed States af­ter Tehran’s bloody crack­down, warn­ing the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic will be “fir­ing back with every­thing we have if we come un­der re­newed at­tack.”

State tele­vi­sion car­ried state­ments by the In­te­ri­or Min­istry and the Mar­tyrs Foun­da­tion, an of­fi­cial body pro­vid­ing ser­vices to fam­i­lies of those killed in wars, stat­ing the toll and say­ing 2,427 of the dead in the demon­stra­tions that be­gan Dec. 28 were civil­ians and se­cu­ri­ty forces. It did not elab­o­rate on the rest.

The U.S.-based Hu­man Rights Ac­tivists News Agency said the death toll was at least 4,560. The agency has been ac­cu­rate through­out the years on demon­stra­tions and un­rest in Iran, re­ly­ing on a net­work of ac­tivists in­side the coun­try that con­firms all re­port­ed fa­tal­i­ties. The As­so­ci­at­ed Press has been un­able to in­de­pen­dent­ly as­sess the death toll.