The statistic circulating online in March 2026 came from a 2020 survey.

War in the Middle East continues after the United States and Israel attacked Iran late last month, and Tehran retaliated with strikes against several of its neighbors, including US-allied Gulf states.

War has spread to multiple theatres. America and Israel have focused on Iran and its proxies in Lebanon. Iran’s retaliation is mostly directed at Israel and America’s allies in the Gulf, but has hit ...

Israel says it has launched a "wide-scale wave of strikes" on Tehran as the US-Israeli war with Iran enters a 14th day ...

Iran has strangled one of the world’s most critical shipping routes, the Strait of Hormuz, by threatening merchant ships and attacking tankers. Iran also has more than 5,000 naval mines in its arsenal ...

A map created by the CBS News data team shows the strike locations across Iran, including the capital and the site of a major nuclear facility.