Israel kills six Iranian nuclear scientists
The IDF said the chief of staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Commander of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Commander of Iran’s Emergency Command “were all eliminated in the Israeli strikes across Iran”.
It said its overnight attack focused on “over 100 targets, including senior figures of the Iranian General Staff and leaders of the nuclear program.”
Iranian state media reported that those killed included Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the IRGC, Gholamali Rashid, the commander of Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters, and the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, Mohammad Bagheri.
IRGC-affiliated news agency Tasnim reported six nuclear scientists were also killed in the strikes, of which five have been named:
- Fereydoon Abbasi, former head Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization
- Mohammad Mahdi Tehranchi, who was involved in Iran’s nuclear weapons programme
- Abdulhamid Minouchehr, head of nuclear engineering at Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University
- Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, a nuclear engineering professor at Shahid Beheshti University
- Amirhossein Feqhi, another nuclear professor at Shahid Beheshti University
Ali Shamkhani, senior adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was also reported to have been seriously injured, according to Iranian reports.
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