ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS
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Saturday's strikes on Iranian territory by Israel have killed a nuclear scientist and a number of Iranian Air Defense personnel and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel, according to reports. 

Iranian nuclear scientist Isar Tabatabai-Qamsheh and his wife were killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday, Mehr News Agency reported. 

15 Iranian Air Defense officers and soldiers were killed in Israeli airstrikes, according to a report by Iranian state media Nournews.

Several military officials killed in weekend strikes 

These include two brigadier-generals, five colonels, three first-lieutenants, one third-lieutenant, and four conscripts.

Flames and smoke rise, following what the Iranian Red Crescent Society says was an Israeli strike, in a location given as Tehran, Iran, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on June 15, 2025. (credit: IRANIAN RED CRESCENT/WANA
Flames and smoke rise, following what the Iranian Red Crescent Society says was an Israeli strike, in a location given as Tehran, Iran, in this screengrab taken from a handout video released on June 15, 2025. (credit: IRANIAN RED CRESCENT/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

The IRGC later said that five of its members were also killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday, but in Khorramabad in western Iran.

This is a developing story.