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Iran confirms death of tenth nuclear scientist

Iran confirms death of tenth nuclear scientist

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

The death of the scientist named Isar Tabatabei Ghomsheh was first announced by the bulletin of Tehran's Sharif University, where he was a former student.

The university bulletin said he was killed "late last week in his home" along with his wife, Mansoureh Hajisalem.

Iran previously confirmed the deaths of nine other nuclear scientists.

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

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

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