Egypt Daily News – The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had succeeded in the assassination of nine senior Iranian scientists and experts in the field of nuclear science during airstrikes carried out by the Israeli Air Force in Iran on Friday.
In a statement, the Israeli army said that “the attack was made possible thanks to precise intelligence gathered by Israeli intelligence.” The statement added that among the Iranian scientists who were assassinated were individuals who represented “key knowledge centers in the Iranian nuclear project, with decades of cumulative experience in the field of nuclear weapons development.”
The Israeli army published a list of the Iranian scientists it assassinated, which included nine names. Israel announces the assassination of 9 senior scientists in the Iranian nuclear project:
Fereydoun Abbasi, expert in nuclear engineering
Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, physics expert
Akbar Matlouzadeh, expert in chemical engineering
Saeed Barji, expert in materials engineering
Amir Hassan Faqih, physics expert
Abdul Hamid Manouchehr, expert in reactor physics
Mansour Askari, physics expert
Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani, expert in nuclear engineering
Ali Bakaei Karimi, mechanical expert
The Israeli army described the assassination of the Iranian scientists as “a major blow to the Iranian regime’s ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction.”
