In March 25, 2026, the Iranian regime executed PMOI members Mohammad Taghavi and Ali Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar. In a desperate attempt to justify their state-sanctioned murder, the clerical regime framed them with fabricated charges.

Mohammad Taghavi was a lifelong champion of freedom whose spirit remained unbroken until his final breath. Born in 1966 in Tehran, Taghavi spent the 1980s and 1990s as a political prisoner. He was imprisoned again in 2020 for approximately three years for his ties to the PMOI, before being released on February 25, 2023, and exiled to Kahnuj in Kerman province. He was arrested for the final time on February 23, 2024, while attempting to leave the country.

Newly published excerpts from Taghavi’s letters, smuggled out of the regime’s most brutal dungeons, offer a rare and inspiring glimpse into the mind of a man who conquered the fear of death and exposed the profound vulnerability of his captors.

Facing the “hanging judge” and defeating solitary confinement

Following his 2024 arrest, Taghavi was transferred to Evin Prison’s notorious Ward 209, run by the Ministry of........

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