Parisa Kamali Ardakani, an Iranian political prisoner currently serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence, has released a powerful audio message from behind the bars of Yazd Central Prison. Despite facing severe repression, internal exile, and lengthy imprisonment, she refuses to be silenced, proving that the regime’s attempts to break the spirit of political prisoners have utterly failed.
In her smuggled audio file, Kamali states that the Iranian people are “always mourning” and have not yet swallowed the grief of the January government massacres. The regime’s strategy of using serial executions and massacres is a desperate tool to instill fear and ensure its survival, but this tactic is fundamentally backfiring by fueling the people’s rage.
Drawing a direct line of systemic state violence spanning decades, Kamali states, “From 1988 to this day, blood has been flowing.” She expresses unwavering hope for the future, declaring, “We have escaped a bitter death and are full of anger. We have faith that a day will come when execution will no longer have a place in our country’s constitution.”
Parisa Kamali was arrested on April 29, 2024, in Isfahan and was initially incarcerated in Dowlatabad Prison before facing three separate legal cases brought against her in Isfahan and Ardakan.
In 2025, she was transferred to internal exile at Yazd Prison. Her formal charges include insulting Ali Khamenei, engaging in propaganda activities against the system, and membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The severe sentences and forced internal exile imposed on Kamali demonstrate the regime’s absolute intolerance and deep-seated fear of organized opposition, specifically targeting those affiliated with the PMOI.
Kamali’s stark warning about the regime’s “killing machine” perfectly describes the current reality in Iran, where a regime beset by domestic and international crises is erecting gallows across the country in fear of a flare-up of uprisings.
According to the latest statement from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the regime executed at least 26 prisoners in just one week between July 28 and August 3, 2026. The victims include Arvin Kheirkhahan, a protester arrested during the January uprising, whose August 1 execution in Shahroud was kept hidden by the judiciary for three days.
Other victims were executed on a variety of charges, including two men executed for alleged espionage on August 3. The execution spree even claimed the life of a juvenile offender who was executed at 19 years old but was only 16 at the time of his alleged offense.
In her message, Kamali urged the international community and human rights organizations not to “close their eyes” to the crimes and massacres inflicted by the executioner government of the mullahs, calling on them to make appropriate decisions to stop this killing machine.
Echoing this plea from inside the prison walls, the NCRI has called for immediate and effective United Nations action to halt the wave of executions in Iran. The Iranian Resistance emphasizes the urgent necessity for an international fact-finding mission to visit Iranian prisons and meet directly with inmates, particularly political prisoners.
Words of condemnation are no longer sufficient; the international community has a moral obligation to intervene practically to stop the mullahs’ execution apparatus before more lives are lost.
Full text of Parisa Kamali’s message from Yazd Central Prison
“We are a people who are always mourning. We have not yet swallowed the grief of the January government killings when our wounds are opened anew. From 1988 to this day, blood has been flowing. The fascist government of the mullahs tries to create terror and fear for its continued survival through consecutive executions and massacres, but it is gravely mistaken. We have escaped a bitter death and are full of anger. We have faith that a day will come when execution will no longer have a place in our country’s constitution. We ask the international community and human rights organizations not to close their eyes to the crimes and massacres that the executioner government of the mullahs inflicts upon the people, and to stop this killing machine with appropriate decisions and actions. No to execution; in the hope of a free and prosperous Iran. Parisa Kamali, Yazd Central Prison.”