The regime in Iran is now targeting the political opposition

That’s what happened recently Narges Mohammadi which will be awarded in 2023 because of its commitment to women’s rights and against the death penalty Nobel Peace Prize was sentenced to another prison sentence: The 53-year-old, who had already been sentenced to several years in prison, was sentenced to six years for conspiracy against national security and one and a half years for propaganda against the state. The activist then goes to the remote town of Khust for two years banished and is not allowed to travel.

The graduate physicist’s “crime”: she denounced the strange circumstances of a lawyer’s death. The result: arrest in December 2025.

Referendum called for

In addition, Mohammadi was critical of the government during the January uprising Declaration signed. It calls for “the holding of a referendum to form a national and inclusive government and enable a democratic transition.” The text was written by the former head of government Mir-Hossein Mousaviwho has been under house arrest since 2011.

For the repressive rulers below Ayatollah Ali Chamenei Such requests are of course a threat to our existence and will be fought with the utmost severity. The activist Ghorban Behzadian-Nedsjd “atone” for his signature on the document of Mousavi, whom he had supported in his presidential candidacy in 2009, with his arrest. Other signatories of the call were also put behind bars by regime henchmen, including a student leader and a women’s rights activist.

The unprecedented Cauldron driving does not stop at former representatives of Tehran’s power elite. This is how Mohsen Aminsadeh became, former deputy foreign minister under the moderate head of state Mohammed Khatami. The ex-diplomat belongs to that Reform warehouse an association of parties headed by Azar Mansouri. The 60-year-old is now also in prison.

Thousands dead

During the uprising, she encouraged her fellow countrymen demonstrating: “If all avenues for making one’s voice heard are blocked, goes on the street“, wrote the former Chatami companion in online services.

Alone – the regime then shut it down Internet and struck back brutally: According to the US-based human rights organization HRANA, at least 6,955 people were killed. Other sources give this Number of victims even several tens of thousands.

Iranian authorities speak of thousands of deaths, mainly passers-by and security forces who were killed by “terrorists” on behalf of the USA and Israel. Since the bloodbath, there has been an eerie calm in the country, the population is frightened Discontent is bubbling underground.