Iran: Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence for Political Prisoner Manouchehr Fallah on the charge of membership in PMOI • Urgent Call for Action to Save Manouchehr Fallah and Other Political Prisoners on Death Row As previously stated in statements by the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in August 2024, February 2025 and May 2026, Manouchehr Fallah, born in 1984, was arrested in June 2023 at Rasht Airport and incarcerated in Rasht’s Lakan Prison. In February 2025, he was sentenced to death by the notorious Second Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht, presided over by Mohammad Ali Darvish Goftar. Subsequently, the regime's Supreme Court referred the case to a parallel branch for re-examination, presided over by Ahmad Darvish Goftar (father of Mohammad Ali Darvish Goftar). In May 2026, this branch again sentenced him to death, and the verdict has now been upheld by the Supreme Court. Consequently, Manouchehr Fallah is at imminent risk of execution. Brutal executions and the issuance of criminal death sentences and long-term imprisonment, particularly against political prisoners and valiant rebellious youths, represent the desperate efforts of the religious fascism to counter the raging anger of the people and prevent a popular uprising. The Iranian Resistance urges immediate and effective action by the United Nations and relevant international bodies to save the lives of Manouchehr Fallah and other prisoners condemned to death. It once again calls for an international fact-finding mission to visit Iran's prisons and meet with prisoners, especially political prisoners on death row. #StopExecutionsInIran

Urgent: Arrest of Ali Alipour, Father of PMOI Member Babak Alipour, Executed by the Iranian Regime On 20 October 2026, Iranian regime security forces arrested Mr. Ali Alipour, father of executed PMOI member Babak Alipour, at his home in Rasht and transferred him to the Shohada-e Gomnam detention center. They also confiscated electronic devices and mobile phones belonging to the family. His son, Rouzbeh Alipour, has been detained since February 2026 and is currently held in Qezel Hesar Prison. Babak Alipour and fellow PMOI member Pouya Ghobadi were executed on 31 March 2026. Authorities denied the family a final visit, withheld Babak’s body, and have yet to disclose his burial place. The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the United Nations and relevant international human rights bodies to take immediate and effective action to secure the release of Mr. Ali Alipour, Rouzbeh Alipour, and other arrested family members of PMOI activists.

From a Strategic Paradigm Shift to a Vanguard Movement The Journey of Women’s Leadership in the Iranian Resistance The period between October 18 and October 22 marks a pivotal milestone in the history of the Iranian Resistance movement, representing a strategic, cultural, and political transformation in the struggle against religious fundamentalism. On October 18, 1989, Maryam Rajavi assumed the leadership of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as its Secretary-General. Four years later, on August 28, 1993, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) elected her as the President-elect for the transitional period of transferring sovereignty to the Iranian people, a decision officially made public on October 22, 1993. This sequence of events initiated an unprecedented historical trajectory that shattered the traditional barriers of gender discrimination and positioned women at the forefront of the revolutionary movement against the misogynistic clerical regime in Tehran. wncri.org/2026/10/19/womens-…