How many people die of a heart attack in Iran every year? Head of the Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases Research Institute of Tehran University of Medical Sciences: About 170,000 Iranians die from heart attacks every year. 57,000 of them are under 70 and 8,000 under 50. Blood fat prevention and control programs should start from childhood. Faced with the Corona epidemic, we could not act properly and Iran experienced one of the highest casualty rates in the world. Life expectancy in the world reached 76.3 years compared to about 51 years in 1950. our news he.