Call for urgent action to save the lives of political prisoners on death row for alleged PMOI membership.
On Friday, November 14, 2025, the regime’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentences for political prisoners Farshad Etemadifar, Alireza Mardasi (Homeidavi), and Masoud Jamei, who are incarcerated in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz, on charges of membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). As a result, they are at imminent risk of execution.
These three prisoners were sentenced to two death sentences and one year in prison on July 11, 2025, after two years of torture and interrogation, by Branch One of the Ahvaz so-called revolutionary court, presided over by the henchman Adibimehr. The charges included ‘moharebeh’ (waging war against God), ‘assembly and collusion against national security,’ ‘membership in the PMOI,’ and ‘propaganda against the state.’
Farshad Etemadifar, 30, from Basht in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, was arrested on June 16, 2023, in the city of Basht and transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention center in Yasuj. He had previously been arrested in Gachsaran in 2018 and served 20 months in prison.
Masoud Jamei, 48, an employee of the oil company, was arrested in August 2023, and Alireza Mardasi, 52, a teacher residing in the Kouy-e Abuzar district of Ahvaz, was arrested in July 2023 in Ahvaz. Both Masoud and Alireza are from the Arab compatriots. Masoud Jamei suffers from stomach cancer, liver problems, high blood pressure, and a severe internal infection.
By issuing these criminal sentences and desperately creating a climate of fear, the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, seeks to prevent an explosion of public anger against the cursed regime of the Velayat-e Faqih.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the United Nations and its relevant bodies and rapporteurs to take urgent action to overturn the death sentences of these three prisoners and secure the release of all political prisoners.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
14 November 2025
