As Operation ‘Rising Lion’ enters its second week, Israel eliminated another Iranian nuclear weapons scientist in a targeted strike. The nuclear scientist, who was a weapons specialist, was taken out in a drone strike while hiding inside Iran’s Islamic Guard-linked safe house in the heart of Tehran, Israeli news reports suggest.
“Israel carried out the targeted killing of a scientist in Tehran on Friday using a drone, an Israeli official said,” The Wall Street Journal reported.”The scientist, who specialized in weaponry, was being kept in a hiding spot outside of his home, the official said.”
“The scientist is at least the 10th expert related to Iran’s nuclear and weapons programs to have been killed by Israel since the start of its current conflict with Iran,” the WSJ noted.
Since the beginning of the Israeli preemptive strike last Friday, the IDF has taken out at least nine senior scientists and experts running Iran’s nuclear weapons program. “Israel has so far taken responsibility for the elimination of nine Iranian nuclear scientists, some of whom were senior members of the so-called ‘weapon group’ involved in nuclear weapons development,” the Israeli news website Ynetnews reported Friday.
With the Israeli aerial operation against Iran continuing, the IDF is systematically hunting down scientists advancing the regime’s rogue nuclear weapons program. According to the Jerusalem Post on Friday, prior to the strike, the intelligence services “compiled a hit list, ready for execution at command, with the most dangerous scientists at the top.”
The Israeli armed forces, on Friday, continued dismantling Iran’s nuke program, hitting the headquarters of the Iranian nuclear weapons project in Tehran and missile manufacturing facilities across the country.
“The IDF completed a series of strikes in the heart of Tehran: dozens of targets were struck, including military missile production sites and the SPND headquarters for research and development of Iran’s nuclear weapons project,” the Israeli military revealed.
On Thursday night, “more than 60 IAF fighter jets, guided by precise intelligence from the IDF Intelligence Directorate, struck dozens of military targets in Iran using approximately 120 munitions,” the IDF statement said. “During the night, several industrial sites used to manufacture missiles were struck in the Tehran area. These sites were developed over many years and served as a key industrial center for the Iranian Ministry of Defense.”
The targets included “sites producing missile components and facilities manufacturing raw materials used in casting missile engines,” the military said.
According to the IDF, “a site producing a critical component of the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program was targeted.”
Overnight, Iran continued firing missiles discriminating on Israeli population centers, seriously injuring at least 21 people, including a 16-year-old boy.
“Some 30 Iranian ballistic missiles were launched at Israel in the latest barrage. Initial reports of at least four impact sites in Haifa, central and southern Israel,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported.
Quoting first-responders, the broadcaster noted that “the latest Iranian barrage includes a 16-year-old boy in serious condition, with shrapnel wounds to his upper body, and a 54-year-old man in moderate condition with a shrapnel wound to his lower limbs.”
The Israeli Air Force and air defense systems successfully intercepted most of the incoming Iranian missiles and drones, with the IDF testing new defensive technologies.
“The IDF confirmed that earlier today (Friday), the IAF’s Aerial Defense Array ‘Barak’ system intercepted a UAV that crossed into Israeli territory,” the Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported. “The ‘Barak’ system was developed in Israel in order to defend from aerial threats.”
The IDF eliminated a senior terrorist, belonging to the Hamas-linked Kataeb al-Mujahideen terror group, responsible for the abduction and murder of 70-year-old Judi Weinstein Haggai and her 72-year-old husband, Gadi Haggai, during the October 7 massacre.
The military, backed by Israel’s Shin Bet security service, “eliminated a senior terrorist in the Kataeb al-Mujahideen terrorist organization responsible for the murder and abduction of Gadi Haggai and Judi Lynn Weinstein,” the IDF announced Friday.
The slain terrorist was the ‘military commander’ of the Iran-funded Kataeb al-Mujahideen terrorist group. “In a joint IDF and ISA activity on June 16th, 2025, Ali Saadi Wasfi Al-Agha, a senior terrorist in the Kataeb al-Mujahideen terrorist organization, was struck and eliminated while operating from a hideout in central Gaza,” the IDF statement added. “Al-Agha was the military commander of the Kataeb al-Mujahideen’s organization and was expected to succeed As’ad Abu Shari’a as the leader of the terror organization after Abu Shari’a was eliminated by the IDF and ISA in the beginning of June.”
Al-Agha’s elimination is part of the IDF’s ongoing Operation Gideon’s Chariots in Gaza. “Over the past week, under guidance from the ISA [Shin Bet security agency], the IDF struck over 300 terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, including terrorists, military structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missiles, and sniper posts,” the military disclosed Friday.
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