Iran FM warns US involvement in conflict would be ‘very dangerous’ as Israel targets commanders

Ghoncheh Habibiazad
BBC Persian, World Service reporter

Iranian media has acknowledged that another nuclear scientist has died in Israeli strikes on the country, rising the official death toll announced to 10.

The death of the scientist named Isar Tabatabei Ghomsheh was first announced by the newsletter of Tehran’s Sharif University, where he was an alumni.

The newsletter of the university said that he was killed “late last week in his home” alongside his wife, Mansoureh Hajisalem.

Iran previously confirmed the death of nine other nuclear scientists.

Fereydoon Abbasi was the former head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, while Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi served as the president of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.

Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, and Amirhossein Feghhi were all members of the academic staff at Tehran’s Shahid Beheshti University.

Akbar Motallebizadeh, Ali Bakaei Karimi, Mansour Asgari, and Saeed Borji have also been killed.

Meanwhile, Israel’s channel 12 reported that Israel, under “Operation Narnia”, has killed 9 Iranian nuclear scientists “simultaneously” and killed the tenth Iranian nuclear scientist shortly after.