Sr IRGC Commanders, Nuclear Scientists killed in Israeli airstrikes on Iran
Israel in the wee hours Friday June 13, 2025 launched major attacks on, what it said, the nuclear and military sites in Iran, killing senior IRGC Commanders and nuclear scientists
Israel in the wee hours Friday June 13, 2025 launched major attacks on, what it said, the nuclear and military sites in Iran, killing senior IRGC Commanders and nuclear scientists.
More than 50 others - mostly women and children, have also been injured in one of the major airstrikes on the Iranian soil by Israel in the recent history.
Iran’s Spiritual Leader Ayatollah Khamenei called this a “heinous crime” and said the Zionist regime has prepared a “bitter and painful fate” for itself.
“With this crime, the Zionist regime has prepared a bitter and painful fate for itself — and it will undoubtedly face it,” Khamenei said in a statement released soon after the Israeli airstrikes.
“Dozens of military targets hit”
Israel's military said it struck "dozens of military targets, including nuclear sites in different areas of Iran".
Among the sites hit is Iran's main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, in the centre of the country.
Iranian state TV said it was struck several times, with pictures showing black smoke billowing from the site.
Natanz operates thousands of advanced centrifuges - equipment used for enriching uranium gas - which are located dozens of metres underground for protection. It is unclear at this point how deep Israel's attack reached, BBC reported.
According to The New York Times, at least six military bases around Tehran as well as homes of military commanders and multiple residential buildings have also been hit, citing senior Iranian officials.
The head of the global nuclear watchdog has confirmed Iran's main nuclear enrichment site at Natanz was hit by Israeli strikes in the early hours of Friday.
In a post on X, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it was "closely monitoring the deeply concerning situation in Iran".
The agency said it was in contact with Iranian authorities regarding radiation levels at the site as well as its inspectors in Iran.
IRGC Commanders, Nuclear Scientists among dead
Iran’s official Press TV said, senior IRGC commanders and nuclear scientists are reported to have been killed in the large-scale Israeli strikes that targeted Tehran and multiple provinces across the country.
Major General Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), is among those killed in the Israeli attack on Tehran early Friday morning.
Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of the central headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces, was also killed in one of the attacks, the state TV confirmed.
Veteran nuclear scientists Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi - the head of the Islamic Azad University, Fereydoon Abbasi - former chief of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, and Dr. Abdolhamid Minoucher are also among those killed in the latest Israeli missile launch.
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