The fractured Islamic regime clinging on in Iran is “way more afraid of a folks’s rebellion than Trump’s bombings”.
Iranian freedom fighters who swore to battle towards the Islamic regime to their final breath had been at present hanged after being systematically tortured, in a second day of state killings. A fellow freedom fighter stated the high-profile nature of the hangings, at a time when the Iranian regime was being crippled by Israeli and the US bombings, indicated the Ayatollah and IRGC had been extra afraid of a folks’s riot than President Trump’s missiles.
Early at present lawyer Babak Alipour, 34, and electrical engineer Pouya Ghobadi, 33, had been executed by the ruling Islamic state. And yesterday Mohammad Taghavi, 59, who had been jailed and tortured many instances by the previous Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s regime, and fellow dissident Akbar Daneshvarkar, 60, confronted the gallows.
All had been political prisoners, all had been hanged on the notorious Ghezel Hesar Jail, 20 miles northwest of Tehran.
Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the Folks’s Mojahedin of Iran, which has established a democratic authorities in ready, ought to the mullahs’ regime fall, stated: “That the regime selected to hold these two martyrs for freedom at this juncture exhibits simply how scared they’re of an inside rebellion.
“And they need to be. It is a regime in its demise throes. It is aware of full nicely that the final word risk to its survival comes from the Iranian folks and the organised resistance.”
Statements attributed to 2 of the hanged males had been shortly launched. Mohammad Taghavi wrote: “As a freedom fighter, honored to serve underneath the proud banner of the Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran, I swear to battle with all my energy till my final breath, to die standing, and with certainty in victory, to cry out: prepared, prepared, prepared.”
Akbar Daneshvarkar wrote: “You recognize nicely and could be comfortable that till my final breath, I’ll stay steadfast in my place, with my life in my fingers for my homeland and folks, unwavering and with out the slightest deviation.”
Taghavi was jailed as a political prisoner within the Eighties and Nineties, was beforehand arrested in 2020 and sentenced to a few years in jail on prices of affiliation with the Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI/MEK). Shortly after his launch, he was arrested once more in March 2024. He had spent a complete of eight years within the mullah’s prisons. Martyred PMOI member Akbar Daneshvarkar, 60, a civil engineer, was additionally arrested in January 2024.
Each males had been subjected to brutal torture within the infamous Ward 209 of Evin Jail. Ward 209 is a detention facility managed instantly by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). It’s notorious for holding political prisoners, journalists, and activists, usually in extended solitary confinement to extract confessions, ceaselessly using superior strategies referred to as “white torture” or sensory deprivation.
In December 2024, each males had been sentenced to demise on the cost of ‘Baghi’ (armed riot) for membership within the PMOI by the executioner decide Iman Afshari in Department 26 of the Revolutionary Court docket in Tehran.
This court docket operates behind closed doorways, with out juries and with legal professionals appointed by the regime.
Amnesty Worldwide has ceaselessly condemned the court docket as an instrument of state repression, violating worldwide regulation by way of systemic, “grossly unfair present trials” and the “weaponisation” of the demise penalty.
In a Twitter Submit following the execution of the 2 males Amnesty condemned their “arbitrary execution” and wrote: “In line with data obtainable to Amnesty Worldwide, authorities in Iran executed the boys with out offering them or their households and legal professionals advance discover or permitting them to say their remaining goodbyes. 4 different males who’re sentenced to demise in the identical case are at grave threat of execution, All six males had been convicted of “armed riot towards the state” (baghi) on allegations of affiliation with banned opposition group, the Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI).”
The sentences had been subsequently upheld by the regime’s Supreme Court docket.
Regime-appointed judges accused the boys of being current “in riots, city actions, and confrontation with safety forces”.
They added Taghavi was additionally a insurgent organiser intent on “harming the nation’s safety”.
In line with FARS, the IRGC’s information company: “Akbar Daneshvarkar and Mohammad Taghavi had been sentenced to demise on prices of meeting and collusion to commit crimes towards the inner safety of the nation, committing efficient harassing actions in help of the PMOI with the purpose of overthrowing the system, and membership within the PMOI with the purpose of disrupting the nation’s safety”
Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran, the political coalition of which the PMOI is a member) stated: “The determined clerical regime, in worry of the folks’s rebellion, vainly makes an attempt to delay the explosion of the folks’s anger for a short time by executing the bravest kids of Iran.
“Nevertheless, this solely doubles the resolve of the rebellious youths and the fighters of the Liberation Military to overthrow the regime.”
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She added the felony executions “amid a overseas conflict”, had been a transparent admission by the ruling mullahs that the principle enemy of the regime is the Iranian folks and the Resistance.
She referred to as on the United Nations, its member states, and all human rights defenders to take rapid motion to save lots of the big variety of PMOI and different political prisoners who stay on demise row in Iran.
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