Israel has hit a strong blow to the Iranian nuclear program, affecting both the country’s nuclear facilities and leading Islamic scientists, the Israeli army said on Saturday.
As an Israeli official announced, Iran’s nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Natanz suffered significant damage from Israeli attacks, adding that it would take more than a few weeks for Tehran to repair the damage.
At the same time, he stressed that a coordinated army operation killed nine leading Iranian nuclear scientists, who played a catalytic role in Tehran’s attempt to acquire nuclear weapons.
IDF announced that nine Iranian scientists were killed during Israel’s first attacks early Friday thanks to the catalytic contribution of intelligence services.
The nine Iranian scientists are: Fereydoon Abbasi, nuclear engineering expert; Mohammad mehdi tehranchi, physics expert; Akbar Motalebi Zadeh, Chemical Engineering Specialist; Al-Hamid Minoushehr, expert in the physics of reactors; Mansour Asgari, Physics Specialist; Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani, Nuclear Engineering Specialist;
“All scientists and experts exterminated were important” sources of knowledge “for Iranian nuclear work and had decades of cumulative experience in the development of nuclear weapons,” the IDF said.
They added that many of them were successors of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the “father of the Iranian nuclear work”, who was allegedly murdered by Israel in 2020.
According to the army, nine scientists were killed in simultaneous attacks in Tehran early Friday, in the same wave of attacks that eliminated dozens of military commanders of the Tehran regime.
“The elimination of scientists was made possible after an in -depth investigation of the intelligence services that have intensified in the last year, in the context of a confidential and apartment planning plan of the Israeli defense forces,” the army said.
As part of the project, IDF said dozens of information researchers “participated in a secret mission aimed at monitoring key nuclear scientists in Iran over several years.”
Source :Skai
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