On Friday, IAF fighter jets, guided by the Intelligence Directorate, simultaneously struck dozens of targets across Iran as part of a large-scale opening salvo of the operation.
During the IAF strikes at the onset of Operation “Rising Lion", nine senior scientists and experts, who advanced the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program, were eliminated.
The strike was made possible thanks to precise intelligence gathered by the Intelligence Directorate.
All of the eliminated scientists and experts served as significant knowledge centers in the Iranian nuclear project and possessed decades of accumulated experience in the development of nuclear weapons.
Among the senior scientists in the Iranian nuclear project who were eliminated:
Fereydoun Abbasi - expert in nuclear engineering
Mohammad Mahdi Tehranshi - physics expert
Akbar Motalebi Zadeh - expert in chemical engineering
Saeed Barji - materials engineering expert
Amir Hassan Fakhahi - physics expert
Abd al-Hamid Minoushehr - expert in reactor physics
Mansour Asgari - physics expert
Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani - expert in nuclear engineering
Ali Bakhouei Katirimi - expert in mechanics
The individuals who were eliminated played a central part of the progress toward nuclear weapons. Their elimination represents a significant blow to the Iranian regime’s ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction.