Media: Israeli strikes on Tehran kill at least six Iranian nuclear scientists

At least six Iranian nuclear scientists and several senior military officials were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, according to Iranian state media and security sources.

The scientists reportedly killed include Abdolhamid Minoochehr, Ahmad Reza Zolfaqari, Seyed Amir Hossein Feqhi, Matlabizadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, and Fereydoon Abbasi, Caliber.Az reports, citing Tasnim.

Feqhi was a senior figure at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and a professor at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran.

Local media reported that Matlabizadeh was killed along with his wife in the strikes.

The attack also claimed the lives of several top Iranian military commanders, including Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Hossein Salami, and Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, head of the Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters.

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned the strikes, vowing retaliation.

“With this crime, the Zionist regime has prepared for itself a bitter, painful fate, which it will definitely see,” Khamenei said in a statement.

Israel has not officially commented on the incident. The reported strike marks a major escalation in hostilities between the two regional rivals.

By Aghakazim Guliyev