Akbar Motalebizadeh

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Akbar Motalebizadeh
اکبر مطلبی زاده
Akbar MotalebiZadeh's funeral ceremony
Born(1963-07-23)23 July 1963
Yazd, Imperial State of Iran
Died13 June 2025(2025-06-13) (aged 61)
Tehran, Iran
Cause of deathAssassinated by Israel
NationalityIranian
EducationNuclear Engineering (Energy Focus)
Alma materAmirkabir University of Technology
OccupationNuclear Engineering
Known forIranian 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, also a physics instructor at Yazd branch of the Islamic Azad University. He was killed in June 2025 during the Israeli attacks on Iran.[2]

Early life

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Akbar Motalebizadeh was born on July 23, 1963, in Yazd, Iran. He grew up in a religious, middle-class family and showed a strong interest in science and technology from an early age.[3]

Dr. Motalebizadeh's father was a prominent architect in Yazd, and his mother was a homemaker. Dr. Motalebizadeh spent his childhood and adolescence in Yazd.[4]

After the Islamic Revolution of Iranian in 1979, he became involved in scientific activities, directing his life toward serving the country in the fields of science and defense.[3]

During the Iran-Iraq War (1980‍–‍1988), he spent two years of his youth in the trenches of war, defending his homeland.[4] It is said that during the Iran-Iraq War, Motalebizadeh served as a comrade-in-arms alongside General Qassem Soleimani and acted as his deputy.[2]

Education

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Akbar Motalebizadeh completed his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at Zahedan University. He earned his master's degree from Shiraz University.[2]

Career

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Akbar Motalebizadeh served for many years as the head of the "Shahid Karimi Group", a subsidiary of the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research of Iran (S.P.N.D.).[2]

Sanction

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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 Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research of Iran (S.P.N.D.).[5][6]

Death

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See also: Iran–Israel war and List of attacks during the Iran–Israel war

Akbar Motalebizadeh was killed in June 13, 2025 during Israeli attacks on Iran at the start of the Iran–Israel war.[7][8]

He was buried in Yazd in June 19, 2025.[7][9][10]

The place of his assassination was a city called Absard in the Central District of Damavand County, Tehran province, Iran; And he was killed there along with his wife.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "روایتی کوتاه از زندگینامه اکبر مطلبی زاده، شهید هسته‌ای یزد" [A short biography of Akbar Motalebizadeh, the nuclear martyr of Yazd] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  2. ^ a b c d "شهید مطلبی‌زاده؛ از کوچه‌های یزد تا قله‌های دانش و شهادت" [Martyr Motalebizadeh; From the alleys of Yazd to the peaks of knowledge and martyrdom] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  3. ^ a b "بیوگرافی دکتر مطلبی زاده" [Biography of Dr. Motalebizadeh] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  4. ^ a b "شهید دکتر اکبر مطلبی زاده، دانشمندی از دل کویر" [Martyr Dr. Akbar Motlabizadeh, a scientist from the heart of the desert] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "کدام دانشمندان هسته ای کشور در حمله اسرائیل شهید شدند؟" [Which Iranian nuclear scientists were martyred in the Israeli attack?] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  7. ^ a b "تشییع شهید مطلبی زاده، دانشمند هسته ای در یزد" [Funeral of martyr Motalebizadeh, nuclear scientist, in Yazd] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  8. ^ Marsi, Federica. "Israel kills nuclear scientists, strikes sites in Iran: Who did it target?". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-06-25.
  9. ^ "تشییع و تدفین شهید دانشمند هسته‌ای در یزد" [Funeral and burial of the martyred nuclear scientist in Yazd] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  10. ^ "Israel eliminated 14 Iranian nuclear scientists: list of those killed" [اسرائیل ۱۴ دانشمند هسته‌ای ایرانی را ترور کرد: فهرست کشته‌شدگان]. Retrieved 27 September 2025.
  11. ^ "اکبر مطلبی زاده" [Akbar Motalebizadeh] (in Persian). Retrieved 27 September 2025.
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