In response to the murder of Iranian political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi and in response to the slow killing of sick political prisoners by the regime’s judiciary, Iran’s heroic rebellious youth carried out a series of operations in Tehran, Karaj, Shahriar, Mashhad, Isfahan, Rasht, Kermanshah, Qazvin, Khorramabad, Islamabad-e Gharb, Iranshahr, and Dorud.
In these anti-repression operations, images of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and supreme leader Ali Khamenei were set on fire in cities across Iran, and the rebellious youth attacked the regime’s centers of suppression and crime as follows:
- Two incendiary attacks on regime municipality buildings in Parand, Tehran
- Setting fire to a regime building in Mashhad
- Setting fire to the Khomeini center of fundamentalism and crime in Islamabad
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Isfahan
- Setting fire to regime institutions tasked with repression of citizens in Fuladshahr, Isfahan
- Setting fire to IRGC Basij bases in Mashhad, Kermanshah, and Iranshahr
- Setting fire to government banners and posters with images of Khomeini and Khamenei in Karaj, Rasht, Shahriar, and Dorud
- Setting fire to signboards for the espionage headquarters of the IRGC Basij and the Ministry of Intelligence in Tehran, Qazvin, and Khorramabad
On Thursday, September 25, the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), while announcing the death of political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi in the notorious Qarchak women’s prison and calling for an investigation into the circumstances of her death, wrote:
“The Judiciary’s state-run news agency reported this crime under the headline: ‘The death of a defendant with a history of collaboration with the PMOI in a hospital,’ writing that Somayeh Rashidi ‘was arrested in 2022 and 2023 on charges of connection with the PMOI, but six months after conditional release, she reestablished contact with the PMOI and was arrested again on April 28, 2025’ (Mizan, September 25, 2025).
“After her arrest and interrogation, Somayeh Rashidi was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison and then, last July, to Qarchak. On September 21, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran had warned that the life of political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi was in danger.”
The next day, September 26, the NCRI Secretariat announced in another statement:
“The so-called Student News Agency, affiliated with the Basij of Khamenei’s IRGC, by publishing a clip on September 25, 2025 of Somayeh Rashidi in which she chants ‘Death to Khamenei, hail to Maryam Rajavi,’ attempted to cover up the ‘beatings,’ ‘denial of medical treatment,’ and other crimes committed by the executioners of Evin and Qarchak against this political prisoner, which led to her martyrdom.”
Another part of the statement reads:
“A number of political prisoners, in order to inform public opinion and prompt action by the UN Special Rapporteur, have written: ‘On May 2, 2025, while writing the slogan “The worker is awake; he despises both mullahs and Shah,” Somayeh Rashidi was arrested by Ministry of Intelligence forces. After spending 24 hours in an undisclosed detention center and being subjected to psychological torture, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison on May 3, 2025. Somayeh suffered from epilepsy and was taking medication for it… While the deceitful and lying media of the regime portrayed Somayeh as an addict in order to erase the traces of their crime under the cover of addiction, the reality is that Somayeh and others like her are not condemned to death because of addiction, but because of their fighting spirit and refusal to submit, which makes them enemies in the eyes of these executioners.”
Hours after the martyrdom of Somayeh Rashidi, political prisoners in Qarchak and Evin prisons honored the memory of the rebellious political prisoner. The prisoners chanted: “Death to the dictator, death to Khamenei, damned be Khomeini” and “Somayeh was sick, but she too was killed.”