An Indomitable Force at the Heart of the People

The PMOI members who have been executed in recent months (from Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani last July to these thirteen heroes) bear witness to the rise of a new generation of revolutionary fighters in Iran.

Listen to their words—each one a declaration of war against a world of oppression, repression, and injustice:

🕊️Akbar Daneshvar-Kar said: “The banner once held by Mohammad Hanifnejad is now in my hands.”

🕊️Pouya Ghabadi said: “I will go to the gallows firm and unshaken.”

🕊️Babak Alipour said: “I call for a struggle a hundred times greater against the regime of Velayat-e Faqih.”

🕊️Abolhassan Montazar said: “My greatest wish is to remain a Mojahed, to fight like a Mojahed, and to die like a Mojahed—for this is the path to salvation.”

And Vahid Bani-Amerian—whom his fellow citizens in Sonqor have rightly called a son of Iran—said: “Blessed is the fight and the sacrifice of one’s life for the ideal of a just society.”

Each of these statements is a distillation of faith, passion, and awareness.

Even the regime’s judiciary, in a cowardly admission, acknowledged that the heroic protester Amir Hassan Hatami looked his interrogators and torturers in the eye and declared that he sought the overthrow of the regime and had taken up the struggle to disarm its repressive forces.

Consider this: they spoke these words at a time when they knew, without the slightest doubt, that the gallows awaited them. Yet they embraced this fate with open eyes.

You saw how the courageous Mojahed 🕊️Mohammad Taqavi told the regime’s executioners: “Even if you release me today, I will once again join the PMOI.”

I raised their photographs at a conference protesting the death sentences of Mohammad Taghavi and his fellow prisoners. Mohammad wrote to me, asking why my face had looked sorrowful as I held up their images. He wrote: “My greatest salvation is to take each step of my life at the height of commitment to the liberation of my people—to move forward with unparalleled readiness toward the gallows, and to remain steadfast until the very last moment.”

This was the message I received from all of them, each time I spoke their names or showed their photographs.

Such humility, sense of responsibility, and courage were the result of a profound choice—one they reached after passing through many trials and hardships.

Over these past years, whenever they were summoned for trial, retrial, or taken into solitary confinement, I felt as though I was with them every moment.

And still, I saw that as the pressure intensified, they became more resilient, more steadfast, more determined, and more combative, sending out messages of perseverance and victory.

From behind prison bars, holding up handwritten messages during visits, they made their presence known, raising their hands in the sign of victory, full of energy and spirit.

Then came the flood of their letters and declarations, pledging repeatedly to bring the enemy to defeat and disgrace.

As I heard, in their final farewells to their fellow prisoners, they gave comfort to everyone—urging patience and perseverance, saying: “Why are you distressed? We are going to join our other comrades. We must not give the enemy cause for satisfaction.”

“We have chosen to stand to the very end, and we take pride in that choice. And it is clear that in doing so, we have disheartened and defeated the enemy.”

These six proud fighters passed through a harsh landscape of demonization, lies, and slander. They turned their backs on every temptation that called them to avoid struggle or to escape the cost of resistance.

They gave up their jobs, their lives, their families, and ultimately their lives themselves. That is the secret of their endurance.

Yes, a people who carry such an indomitable force within their hearts have already gained the power to defeat their enemy.

Salute to the PMOI and other political prisoners who for more than two years have courageously carried forward the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign.

Salute to those under sentence of death, whose steadfastness inspires Iran’s youth to rise and fight.

And salute to the martyrs whose sacrifice inspires the great uprising yet to come.

Salute to the martyrs.

Long live freedom.

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