The IDF has released the names of nine Iranian nuclear scientists who were killed in the initial wave of Israeli strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program early Friday morning. These individuals, the military says, were instrumental in advancing Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
Among those eliminated were:
• Fereydoon Abbasi – nuclear engineering
• Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi – physics
• Akbar Motalebi Zadeh – chemical engineering
• Saeed Barji – materials engineering
• Amir Hassan Fakhahi – physics
• Abd al-Hamid Minoushehr – reactor physics
• Mansour Asgari – physics
• Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani – nuclear engineering
• Ali Bakhouei Katirimi – mechanical engineering
The IDF described them as key figures in Iran’s nuclear development efforts, with many considered direct successors to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in 2020, widely attributed to Israeli intelligence.
According to the military, these scientists were killed in coordinated precision strikes across Tehran, launched in tandem with attacks that also took out several high-ranking military leaders.
The IDF said the operation was the result of a long-term classified initiative involving a dedicated team of intelligence analysts who, over years, secretly tracked and mapped the scientists’ movements and roles. The project gained momentum in the past year and was part of a broader, compartmentalized military strategy targeting Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
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