The targeted killing of at least 14 scientists, an unprecedented attack on the minds behind the Iranian nuclear program, also includes war. which, according to external experts, however, can only slow down, but do not stop its development. European governments affirm that military force only cannot eradicate Iranian nuclear know-how, which is why they hope for a negotiating solution.
Iran has long claimed that its nuclear program is peaceful, and the US intelligence agencies have evaluated that it is not actively pursuing the construction of a bomb. However, Israel is convinced that Iran could quickly assemble a nuclear weapon.
The Associated Press reconstructed who were the scientists who were killed in the flash war between Israel and Islamic Republic.
The IDF said that nine out of 14 scientists were eliminated in the first wave of attacks on June 13: “They owned decades of experience accumulated in the development of nuclear weapons” and included specialists in chemistry, materials and explosives, in addition to physicists, reported Israel.
The list of victims
Radio Farda reports a list of victims: Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, who also held political positions; Amir Hossein Fakhi, Abolhamid Minouchehr, Akbar Matalizadeh, Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, Saeed Barji, Mansour Asgari, Ali Bekai Karimi and Ali Bakoui were other individuals that the Iranian media presented as “nuclear scientists”.
The Iranian state television announced only yesterday that Mohammad Reza Seddighi Saber, another nuclear scientist, was also killed during the Israeli raids, in the father’s house in the province of Gilan. Saber had survived the attack on June 13, in which instead his seventeen -year -old son died. The names of the other three presumably killed scientists, according to the Israeli authorities, have not yet been disclosed.
International humanitarian law prohibits the intentional killing of civil and non -fighters. However, the Associated Press points out, the law experts claim that these restrictions may not apply to nuclear scientists if they are part of the armed forces or participate directly in hostilities.