Youths salvage tree branches to be used for firewood from the rubble outside a damaged building at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike in Lebanon's southern village of Ain Qana on June 6, 2025. Israel warned on June 6 that it will keep striking Lebanon until it disarms militant group Hezbollah, hours after it hit south Beirut in what Lebanese leaders called a major ceasefire violation. The attack on what the Israeli military said was Hezbollah's underground drone factories came on the eve of Eid al-Adha, one of the main religious festivals on the Muslim calendar. (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT / AFP)
Friday June 13, 2025|
At least six nuclear scientists were killed Friday, June 13, in Israel’s attacks on Iran, media outlets in the Islamic Republic reported.
Tasnim news agency named the six scientists, including Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who was the president of the Islamic Azad University of Iran.
Fereydoun Abbasi, a former head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, was also among the scientists killed, it added.
Friday’s strikes hit multiple targets across Iran, including residential buildings in Tehran as well as a key nuclear enrichment facility in Iran’s centre.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami and armed forces chief of staff Mohammad Bagheri were killed in the Israeli operation.
