Akbar Motalebizadeh
Akbar Motalebizadeh | |
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اکبر مطلبی زاده | |
| Born | 23 July 1963 |
| Died | 13 June 2025 (aged 61) |
| Cause of death | Assassinated by Israel |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Education | Nuclear Engineering (Energy Focus) |
| Alma mater | Amirkabir University of Technology |
| Occupation | Nuclear Engineering |
| Known for | Iranian prominent nuclear engineering |
Akbar Motalebizadeh (23 July 1963 – 13 June 2025)[1] was an Iranian nuclear scientist; and a faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University and a physics instructor at Yazd Islamic Azad University. He was killed in june 2025 during the Israeli attacks on Iran. He served for many years as the head of the Shahid Karimi Group, a subsidiary of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Organization.[2]
The US Treasury Department sanctioned him in March 2019. According to the Department, he worked in areas such as research related to weapons systems, explosives, and shock and explosion tests, and supervised the implementation of projects with military applications in the Shahid Karimi Group and served as a personal advisor to Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, then head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Organization.[3][4]
Death
[edit]Motalebizadeh was killed in June 2025 during Israeli attacks on Iran at the start of the Iran–Israel war. He was buried in Yazd.[5][6][7][8]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ روایتی کوتاه از زندگینامه اکبر مطلبی زاده، شهید هسته‌ای یزد A Short Biography of Akbar Motlabizadeh, Nuclear Martyr of Yazd
- ^ شهید مطلبی‌زاده؛ از کوچه‌های یزد تا قله‌های دانش و شهادت Martyr Motlabizadeh; From the Alleys of Yazd to the Peaks of Knowledge and Martyrdom
- ^ "U.S. Government Sanctions Organizations and Individuals in Connection with an Iranian Defense Entity Linked to Iran's Previous Nuclear Weapons Effort". U.S. Department of the Treasury (Press release). March 22, 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ کدام دانشمندان هسته ای کشور در حمله اسرائیل شهید شدند؟ Which Iranian nuclear scientists were martyred in the Israeli attack?
- ^ تشییع شهید مطلبی زاده، دانشمند هسته ای در یزد Funeral of martyr Motlabizadeh, nuclear scientist, in Yazd
- ^ تشییع و تدفین شهید دانشمند هسته‌ای در یزد Funeral and Burial of Martyr Nuclear Scientist in Yazd
- ^ Israel eliminated 14 Iranian nuclear scientists: list of those killed
- ^ Marsi, Federica. "Israel kills nuclear scientists, strikes sites in Iran: Who did it target?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-06-25.