On July 12, 2025, Mohaddese Mirzaei, a 30-year-old woman from Kermanshah and the
mother of a five-year-old boy, was killed by her ex-husband, Mohammad Karami.
According to a reliable source, the young woman had been subjected to repeated abuse
by her husband during their marriage. Despite their official divorce, her ex-husband
continued to harass her and lured her into a meeting under the false pretense of
“discussing reconciliation.”
During the meeting, an argument and altercation broke out, and Mohammad Karami
ultimately killed Mohaddese. Meanwhile, the news outlet Rokna falsely reported the
incident as a suicide. Her body was buried that evening at the Chahar Marjan cemetery
in Kermanshah. To clarify such cases, it is crucial that those close to the victim break
their silence and expose the truth behind the killing. Unfortunately, the exact details of
how she was killed have not yet been made available to the media.
Mohaddese Mirzaei’s killing is yet another link in a chain of killings targeting women
after divorce. In many such cases, the perpetrators display similar behavioral patterns:
domestic violence during the marriage, continued harassment after separation, and
eventually killing under the guise of reconciliation or out of revenge. These killings often
occur in societies where a sense of male ownership over women persists even after
divorce.
In this toxic mindset, men view separation as an insult to their “manhood,” and violence
becomes a tool for revenge and reasserting control. The legal and cultural systems
frequently fail to empathize with the victims; they neither provide sufficient protection for
women at risk nor enforce effective deterrents against men who manipulate the system
to commit violence.
Such killings underscore the urgent need to reform laws protecting women, to establish
safe shelters, to educate the public to dismantle the culture of male ownership, and to
effectively criminalize gender-based violence. In a society where divorce does not end
violence but rather marks the beginning of new dangers for women, we must sound the
alarm: if we remain silent, the next killing is only a matter of time.

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