Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency carried out the assassinations of several Iranian nuclear scientists in recent months, which has led to “the virtual decimation of the Islamic republic’s elite physicists,” . The latest victim — 35-year-old physicist Darioush Rezaei — was shot in the throat in front of his daughter’s kindergarten in Tehran on July 23. The attackers fled on motorcycle. Iran said Rezaei was a student, not a nuclear weapons expert, but the Associated Press reported last week that international sources confirmed he was indeed involved with the country’s nuclear weapons program, working specifically on a key component for detonating a nuclear bomb — high-voltage switches.
