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Iran state media names two nuclear scientists killed in Israeli strike

By Reuters and ToI Staff 13 June 2025, 5:14 am Edit
Handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a site apparently targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran early in the morning. (Sepah News / AFP)
Handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a site apparently targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran early in the morning. (Sepah News / AFP)

Iran’s state TV says nuclear scientists Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were killed in an Israeli strike earlier this morning.

Israel has said it believes a number of members of the military’s top brass and senior nuclear scientists were killed in the IDF’s opening strikes on Iran.

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