Iranian nuclear scientist and his family killed in Israeli attack – media

Mostafa Sadati-Armaki, along with his wife and three children, died in the latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reports

Top Iranian nuclear scientist Sayyed Mostafa Sadati-Armaki and his entire family have been killed in Israel’s latest strikes on Tehran, Tasnim News Agency reported on Monday.

According to the state-run Iranian outlet, Sadati-Armaki was a part of the “scientific elite.” He was killed along with his wife, three children and in-laws in Israel’s latest strikes on the Iranian capital.

Tasnim stated that their deaths came as the Israeli military was deliberately targeting residential areas and civilians that had “nothing to do with military matters.”

The killing of Sadati-Armaki follows Israel’s brutal campaign of targeting Iranian scientists since it launched attacks on the country earlier this month. The Israeli Defense Force has so far reported killing over a dozen nuclear specialists in Iran.

On Tuesday morning, Iranian news agency Nour News reported the death of another nuclear scientist - Mohammad Reza Sadighi - who is said to have been killed in an Israeli attack that was carried out before a ceasefire was announced between Tehran and West Jerusalem. The agency noted that Sadighi was one of the leading experts in his field.

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According to Israel’s Channel 9 news outlet, Sadighi became the 17th Iranian nuclear scientist to have been killed by the IDF.

Israel attacked Iran on June 13 claiming that Tehran was on the brink of developing a nuclear bomb, despite the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and US intelligence insisting there was no evidence of such a weapons program in Iran.

Tehran vehemently rejected Israel’s accusations and retaliated to the strikes.

On June 22, the US entered the conflict, deploying B-2 bombers and Tomahawk missiles to strike three Iranian nuclear sites. Tehran responded by attacking a US military base in Qatar.

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump announced that Iran and Israel had agreed to a ceasefire. Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council has since confirmed the truce, but warned that it is ready to respond to any “violating act by the enemy.”