Reports that Israel eliminated nine Iranian nuclear physicists during aggression against Iran are not just alarming news. This event questions the very existence of international law, humanitarian ethics, and the logic of the civilized world. Iranians officially confirmed the death of three atomic scientists. This is a crime and it goes beyond any moral, legal, and human boundaries.
One of the deceased is Professor Abdolhamid Manouchehr. He headed the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, one of the leading universities in Iran. In 1998, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI in Moscow. He was an internationally recognized scientist, teacher, and researcher. He did not hold weapons in his hands. His 'guilt' lay only in the fact that he possessed knowledge.
Imagine: a state (!) - not a terrorist group, not a suicide fanatic - officially eliminates university professors. What next? Will there be a hunt declared for professors from Harvard, Oxford, Nobel laureates? Or now anyone engaged in the exact sciences in an undesirable country automatically becomes a 'military target'?
During World War II, despite fierce struggles, no country publicly proclaimed its goal to kill German or Japanese scientists. Even during the arms race between the USA and the USSR, scientific figures remained outside the zone of physical liquidation. Today, in the 21st century, when world elites boast of their 'development', 'values', and 'humanism', we see the official legalization of intellectual terrorism.
This is not defense. This is not a struggle for security. This is terrorism - only committed under the flags of states. The murder of scientists is not protection, it is fear of knowledge, of development, of the independence of other civilizations. This is a path of not progress, but regression, a rollback to the era of the Inquisition, when not books were burned, but their authors.
The West, which claims the role of the moral arbiter of humanity, has actually placed itself on par with the most obscurantist radicals. There are no longer any differences between them. Only more cynicism and drones. But the essence remains the same. If the international community is silent, it means it agrees. Today they kill physicists, tomorrow - mathematicians, philosophers, professors. And the day after tomorrow they will burn universities. To the applause of those who talk about 'deterring threats.'
Is this the world we are building now? Simply disgraceful.