Six nuclear scientists killed in Israel attack on Iran: media
The Hindu
Israeli attacks on Iran kill six nuclear scientists, including high-ranking officials, in strikes on multiple targets.
At least six nuclear scientists were killed Friday (June 13, 2025) in Israel's attacks on Iran, media outlets in the Islamic Republic reported.
Tasnim news agency named the six scientists including Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was the president of the Islamic Azad University of Iran.
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Fereydoun Abbasi, a former head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, was also among the scientists killed, it added.
Friday's (June 13, 2025) strikes hit multiple targets across Iran, including residential buildings in Tehran as well as a key nuclear enrichment facility in Iran's centre.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami and armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri were killed in the Israeli operation.
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