Six nuclear scientists killed in Israeli attack (Iranian media)

Six nuclear scientists were killed in the large-scale Israeli strikes on Iran on Friday, local media reported.

Tasnim news agency reported that "Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ahmad-Reza Zolfaghari, Amir-Hossein Faghihi, Motalibizadeh, Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi, and Fereydoun Abbasi are the martyred nuclear scientists" as a result of the Israeli attack.

Abbasi is one of the most prominent figures in the nuclear field in the Islamic Republic and previously headed the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran. He survived an assassination attempt in 2010 by a bomb attached to his car, an operation that Iran blamed on US and Israeli intelligence.

Tehranchi was the president of Islamic Azad University in Tehran.

On Friday, Israel launched a series of massive strikes on nuclear and military sites in Iran, including the Natanz facility, killing prominent military commanders. The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic threatened the Jewish state with a "bitter and painful fate."

Iranian media announced the deaths of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri, as well as Revolutionary Guard Commander Hossein Salami and prominent IRGC commander Gholam Ali Rashid.