(Forelines) – As part of the operation’s massive opening salvo, Israel’s Air Force fighter jets, under the direction of the Intelligence Directorate, simultaneously hit dozens of targets throughout Iran on Friday, according to the Israeli Defence Forces in a press release.
“During the Israel’s Air Force fighter 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,” Israel’s Defence Forces said in a press release.
Senior scientists and experts who were eliminated from the Iranian nuclear project:
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 elimination of those people was a major factor in the development of nuclear weapons. A major setback to the Iranian regime’s capacity to obtain WMDs is represented by their eradication.