Wife of martyred scientist Ali-Mohammadi: The Monafeghin serves as a tool for the West’s “dirty work”

The 36th and 37th sessions of the trial into the crimes of the Monafeghin Terrorist Group focused on the group’s collaboration with the criminal Zionist regime — a partnership that has become more pronounced in recent years given their shared characteristics, including child killings and assassinations of scientists.

The record of cooperation between the Monafeghin and one of the key actors in organized terrorism — the Zionist regime — contains many dark chapters, among them their complicity in the blatant and widely condemned aggression against Iran in June of this year.

One of the most heinous aspects of that aggression was the campaign of assassinating scientists, which drew no effective international response or preventive action.

The failure of international scientific bodies to condemn the deliberate killing of their peers undermines the global value of science itself. Scientists everywhere depend on boundaries that separate politics from knowledge, war from peace, violence from discovery. Without such boundaries, international scientific cooperation — the cornerstone of human progress — is gravely endangered.

Mansoureh Karimi, the wife of Dr. Masoud Ali-Mohammadi, the Iranian scientist who fell victim to Monafeghin and Israeli collaboration, attended the 36th court session on Monafeghin crimes and explained this terrorist cooperation.

In an interview with Mizan, Karimi emphasized the necessity of holding trials for Monafeghin crimes and called for pursuing the Zionist regime’s terrorist crimes against Iran and its people in international courts.

Referring to Israel’s recent aggression against Iran, she said: “During its 12-day assault, the Zionist regime spared no crime, committing numerous atrocities from child killings to assassinations of scientists.”

She demanded that these crimes be pursued legally in international tribunals, stressing that addressing them in domestic courts is a prerequisite.

Citing the 1986 UN Declaration on the Right to Development, which recognizes development as a right for all nations and peoples, she argued that Israel and the Monafeghin, by assassinating Iranian scientists, are stripping Iranians of this right. These terrorist acts, she said, have numerous consequences for development, and are intended to block the path of Iran’s progress.

Karimi stressed that the Monafeghin, as a tool and proxy of Iran’s enemies, is well known to the people and has no place in Iranian society. “The Monafeghin Terrorist Group has always betrayed the Iranian people and the country — whether during the imposed war by Saddam’s regime or in the campaign of assassinating scientists. The whole world, including Western countries, knows the Monafeghin well. Western states support them because they can use them for what they themselves call dirty work.”

She further stressed: “We must make the world aware of the crime of assassinating scientists carried out by the Monafeghin. We must raise our voice internationally, and actively participate in human rights forums to present our narrative of what has been inflicted on us. We have witnesses who are living proof of these crimes — evidence stronger and clearer than anything else.”

Karimi added that with such living testimony, Iran can stand against the Western media’s narrative in support of the Monafeghin and the Zionist regime.

She expressed hope that sufficient measures will be taken to bring the voices of Iran’s martyred scientists and victims of terrorism to the international stage.