A Better Future

By Ahmad Rahbar

The bitter winter cold would make one’s bones shiver, and steps taken by legs in the month of December were truly very weak. There was no noise to be heard. Even birds were never heard singing to remind us of the next morning, as the cold winds blew over the fields of firing squads in Kermanshah, western Iran.

Iran June 1987: The Twenty Unforgettable Laudable

By Nasrin Faizi 

My name is Nasreen Feizi and I had spent nearly 10 years in the prisons of Evin, Gohardasht and Ghezzel Hessar in Iran under the mullahs’ regime.
It was June 1987 and we were in hall 14 of Gohardasht Prison. In those days all political prisoners had staged widespread rallies protesting the intense climate of crackdown and torture ruling inside the prisons.

My Hero

By Ne’mat Firuzi

The time was December 1981, and the place was the city of Arak, located in central Iran. Iran’s revolution had only seen 3 springs and I was barely 18 years of age. However, after spending 20 days in solitary confinement controlled by the Revolutionary Guards, they took me while blindfolded into a dungeon they called temporary detention center. It was a dark place, in the basement of a building, lacking any kind of hygiene facilities.

The Story of a Woman’s Resistance Who Did Not Succumb to Iran’s Religious Dictatorship

By Assadollah Nabavi

The sound of a woman in pain had me go to the door of my prison cell. Cell number 2 of Semnan Prison in central Iran. It was back in August 1988. 

The summer of 1988 Iran was the scene of horrific massacres carried out under Khomeini’s religious fatwa against all political prisoners across the country. I was looking down the hallway through the small hatch in my cell. The prison guards were busy taking something away with a cart. I looked more carefully.

Nothing . . . but “Treason”

By Mohammad

Some politicians argue that the recent final nuclear deal will bring tempting changes in Iran that make the world safer for its habitants. Well, they can wait and see, but speaking of changes we should not overlook the fact that credits should be given to the Iranian regime for bringing some changes to our world.

Iran: Legends of liberation will never be forgotten.

By Nasrin Yonesi

Have you ever been able to count 120.000 or even 1000 stars? You’re, certainly, surprised. I wish, someday, somewhere I can room that big number so that I can feel and understand it. Can you believe that there is a state or a system in this world that has already executed 120.000 of its citizens, who were all educated, doctors, and students? That it even included youth, teenagers, and pregnant women. Wounded are killed under torture, on the gallows or before the firing squad.

Even teachers feel no mercy in Iran

By Massoud 

Summer is ending and schools are opening across the globe. Teachers are always considered kind and giving individuals who care for their students and strive to give their all, knowing they are raising their country’s next generations. In Iran, teachers have always been viewed with such respect and students are ever grateful for their efforts. However, the cruel Iranian regime actually feels threatened from teachers in Iran because they enlighten the youth, and they themselves are always a source of protests demanding their rights.

Remembering those who sacrificed for freedom

By Ahmad Rahbar

The inhumane mullahs’ regime ruling Iran recently executed a young man by the name of Behruz Alekhani after holding him behind bars for 8 years. Alekhani was a young Kurd representing the aspirations of his nation, and today he is no longer among us. The mullahs’ regime in Iran has in the past 35 years of its despicable rule continuously shedding blood and executing people, and its main target have always been the women and youth in Iran. This is something that people talk less about these days.

Iran, spring of freedom

By Hossain Farsi

Fresh snow from the night before had covered everywhere and drops of blood were visible on the ground. It was mid-winter 1981, and the weather in Tehran was bone-chilling cold. It was clear that it was the footsteps of a prisoner who had been severely tortured by the henchmen. The barbaric tortures were carried out based on Khomeini’s fatwa. The bloody footsteps led to the solitary confinement near us. We guessed that a new prisoner had joined our cell, or they had taken one of the older ones for torture the night before.

At that time they didn’t mix the detainees who had passed through their interrogation and torture process and with severe physical conditions were on death row with the others. The cell adjacent to us was for these individuals. They were kept in such conditions to the very end.

All enchained birds must be freed

By Nasrin Faizi- Former political prisoner in Iran

My name is Nasrin Feizi and for about ten years, meaning from 1981 to 1990 I was held captive in the Iranian regime’s dungeons, including Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, and Ghezel Hesar and Gohardasht prisons in Karaj, west of the Iranian capital. The months of July, August and September always remind me of the 30,000 political prisoners executed in a horrific massacre back in 1988 by Khomeini’s regime in Iran. Each year, during these months, I am lost in my memories of those innocent victims, and once again I pledge yet another, stronger oath to continue this struggle to avenge their deaths. The answer to all of this lies in the “Overthrow of the vicious mullahs’ regime ruling Iran”.