TEHRAN – President Masuud Pezeshkian paid tribute to Iran’s assassinated nuclear scientists on Tuesday, calling their “only crime” the pursuit of national scientific sovereignty.
Speaking at Shahid Beheshti University, he said:
He condemned the “hypocritical claims of democracy and human rights” in the West and was not attacked by the rivers of Amir Hossein Fehihi, Mohammad Medi Tehransi, Ahmad Reza Zorfari, Abdulamide Minnowshew, and Fereidoun Abasi Davani.
Standing in front of the scientist’s monument, Pezeschkian declared:
The five were among 19 scientists martyred by Iran during the Israeli regime’s campaign of attacks on Iran, which began with a coordinated strike targeting nuclear facilities and residential areas on June 13. The regime’s attacks brought over the martial religion of more than 1,065 Iranians during the war.
Collectively, five martyr scientists have written 555 peaceful and shocking research papers in radiation safety, nanotechnology and environmental science.
Iran has argued that the nuclear program is peace, citing nuclear weapons that explicitly prohibit Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah, a fatwa issued by the leader of the Islamic Revolution.