{"id":335140,"date":"2025-08-04T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T08:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335140"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:24:18","slug":"irans-regime-executed-two-men-but-couldnt-kill-the-future-they-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/irans-regime-executed-two-men-but-couldnt-kill-the-future-they-promised\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Executed Two Men, but Couldn\u2019t Kill the Future They Promised"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a memorial rally in Rome on July 30, 2025, Maryam Rajavi lays flowers before portraits of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Three-minute read<\/span><\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawyer leaned in toward the frail prisoner on death row, his words soft but heavy with bargain: \u201cNo need for a TV interview anymore. No written confession. Just tell me, quietly, that you\u2019ll never walk that path again\u2014and you can have your normal life back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Behrouz Ehsani, 68, sat in silence for a moment, his gaze steady. Then a faint, almost tender smile curved his lips. \u201cI will never,\u201d he said slowly, each word a quiet rebellion, \u201cnever bow to your wretched rule.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hours later, in the pre-dawn of July 27, 2025, the Iranian regime hanged Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani<\/a>, 48, a husband and father, for their ties to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). The world\u2019s top executioner thought these gallows would speak of fear. Instead, they declared a promise: the future of Iran belongs to freedom and democracy, no matter how many ropes it takes to try to stop it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The irony of tyranny<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Thirty-seven years ago, 30,000 political prisoners<\/a> were slaughtered in Iran\u2019s jails\u2014a UN envoy would later call it genocide. Now, decades later, the same rulers replay their own crime, expecting a different outcome: that fear will bury hope.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fellow prisoners remember Ehsani and Hassani as men full of life, joking with cellmates, tidying their ward to the last day\u2014lovers of life. When survival was offered in exchange for renouncing the Resistance, they refused\u2014not because they longed for death, but because surrender would have spoken a lie: that their cause was unjust, that freedom was not worth the price tens of thousands of fellow freedom fighters had already paid.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Sunday in Paris, protesters demanded the release of French nationals detained in Iran. Louis Arnaud called out the regime's hostage policies and highlighted the cases of Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, facing execution. #Iran<\/a> #FreeIran2025<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/7VCo8Z9Jvz<\/a><\/p>\n

— SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) February 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n