Iran has so far confirmed that at least six of its nuclear scientists were killed in Israeli strikes overnight.
According to foreign media, the most prominent of them is Fereydoon Abbasi, a former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, the second identified, served as president of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, writes A2 CNN.
Abdolhamid Minouchehr, Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, and Amirhossein Feqhi were academics at Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran.
The sixth victim has been identified only by her last name, Motallebizadeh. Meanwhile, it is reported that the number of victims from the attacks is in the dozens and the number of injured in the hundreds, while there is still no exact balance of figures. (A2 Televizion)