{"id":345435,"date":"2026-05-30T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=345435"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:51:06","slug":"iran-ali-younesi-from-ghezel-hesar-draws-a-blood-soaked-boundary-between-dictatorship-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/iran-ali-younesi-from-ghezel-hesar-draws-a-blood-soaked-boundary-between-dictatorship-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Ali Younesi from Ghezel Hesar Draws a Blood-Soaked Boundary Between Dictatorship and Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_217774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217774\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-217774\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi.jpg\" alt=\"Ali-Younesi\" width=\"850\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi-696x491.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi-595x420.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ali-Younesi-200x140.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-217774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali-Younesi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest statement by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/statement-human-rights\/iran-mullahs-judiciary-admits-arrest-of-amir-hossein-moradi-and-ali-younesi-sharif-university-of-technology-elite-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ali Younesi<\/a>, the imprisoned elite student and political prisoner held in Ghezel Hesar Prison, is more than a response to the misuse of his name and image by remnants of the Shah\u2019s regime. It is a clear political and moral declaration against two forms of dictatorship: the ruling theocracy of the mullahs and the overthrown monarchy of the Shah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Younesi is not an unknown prisoner. He is a former computer engineering student at Sharif University of Technology and one of Iran\u2019s most distinguished young academic talents. In 2018, he won the gold medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in China, after previously receiving silver and gold medals in Iran\u2019s National Astronomy Olympiad. Yet the regime treated this brilliant student not as a national asset, but as an enemy. He was arrested in April 2020 after being brought home with visible injuries, while his family was also subjected to pressure and interrogation. The judiciary later accused him and Amir Hossein Moradi, another elite Sharif student, of links to the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/about-the-peoples-mojahedin-organization-of-iran-pmoi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMOI\/MEK<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News Alert<br \/>\nOn the eve of universities reopening, imprisoned elite students Amirhossein Moradi &amp; Ali Younesi wrote:<br \/>\n\u201cUniversities have become prisons, and prisons have become universities.\u201d<br \/>\nThey vowed:<br \/>\n\u201cOur unbreakable resolve will shape Iran\u2019s destiny\u2014free, republican &amp;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WCUJ9llAlv\">pic.twitter.com\/WCUJ9llAlv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SIMAY AZADI TV (@en_simayazadi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/en_simayazadi\/status\/1969429880040227304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On May 26, 2026, from inside Ghezel Hesar Prison, Younesi drew a line that he insisted must never be blurred: the line between dictatorship and freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This statement must be read alongside his earlier letter of May 12, in which he rejected the Iranian regime\u2019s so-called amnesty. The regime, after years of imprisonment, torture, fabricated charges, and pressure against political prisoners and their families, now seeks to present itself as a source of \u201cforgiveness.\u201d But Younesi\u2019s response exposed the moral fraud at the heart of this gesture. Freedom, he made clear, is not a favour to be granted by the executioner; it is a stolen right that must be reclaimed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his May 12 letter, Younesi wrote that he had never requested amnesty and never would. To accept such an offer from the very apparatus that had stolen his freedom would be to accept the regime\u2019s false narrative: that the prisoner is guilty and the oppressor has the right to pardon. Younesi reversed that logic. The real question, he argued, is not whether the regime should pardon political prisoners, but whether the victims, the grieving families, and the Iranian people can ever pardon the regime for its crimes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iranian students release defiant letters from the regime&amp;#039;s dungeons\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_3Fk6tUUfV_o\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3Fk6tUUfV_o%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Fk6tUUfV_o\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M46S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2026-05-15T17:58:12Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_3Fk6tUUfV_o\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3Fk6tUUfV_o%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iranian students release defiant letters from the regime&#039;s dungeons<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3Fk6tUUfV_o\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F3Fk6tUUfV_o%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iranian students release defiant letters from the regime&amp;#039;s dungeons\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, two elite Iranian students who have been in the regime&#039;s prisons since 2020 on political charges, release defiant letters, rejecting the regime&#039;s pardon and honoring the memory of courageous political prisoners executed by the regime. *** Content on the PMOI\/MEK&#039;s official YouTube channel is not subject to copyright if the source is mentioned ***\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_d1acc2e63cfc23d4\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"off\" aria-busy=\"false\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The moral centre of that letter was his tribute to six of his cellmates who were sent to the gallows: Vahid Baniamerian, Pouya Ghobadi, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi, Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Abolhassan Montazar. Younesi described them as proud and defiant prisoners who did not bargain over their lives. In their memory, he refused to bargain over the remaining months of his own imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was not a personal gesture alone. It was an act of political continuity. Younesi placed his own imprisonment within a longer chain of sacrifice, resistance, and struggle for freedom in Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His May 26 statement added another crucial dimension. In recent days, some supporters and promoters of the slogan \u201cDeath to the Three Corrupt Figures\u201d had attempted to appropriate Younesi\u2019s name and statement. With sharp irony, he replied that after receiving the \u201cLeader\u2019s pardon,\u201d he had now apparently also received a \u201croyal pardon.\u201d In one sentence, he rejected both the regime\u2019s attempt to parade \u201camnesty\u201d as legitimacy and the monarchist attempt to exploit his resistance for a project of returning to the past.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Younesi identified himself clearly as a supporter of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/pmoi-mek\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>. He then drew a historical line that is central to understanding his position. If the blood of the six recently executed prisoners leaves no room for reconciliation with the mullahs, he wrote, then the blood of Mohammad Hanifnejad and his companions \u2014 the founders of the PMOI, executed by the Shah\u2019s regime in 1972 \u2014 leaves no room for unity with the Shah and SAVAK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the core of Younesi\u2019s message: the struggle for Iran\u2019s freedom cannot be built on forgetting one dictatorship in order to oppose another. The crimes of the current regime do not cleanse the crimes of the monarchy. The gallows of today do not erase the gallows of yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Younesi\u2019s statement therefore rejects a false choice that some seek to impose on Iranian society: either the mullahs or the Shah. His answer is neither. His position is rooted in a third principle: the sovereignty of the Iranian people, democratic freedom, and a republic free from both clerical rule and hereditary monarchy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That is why the slogan he chose carries such political weight: \u201cDeath to the oppressor, whether the Shah or the Supreme Leader.\u201d This is not merely a protest chant. It is a democratic boundary. It states that Iran\u2019s problem is not simply the identity of the ruler, but the structure of oppression itself. Whether wrapped in a turban or crowned with a royal title, dictatorship remains dictatorship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The significance of Younesi\u2019s statement is heightened by the place from which it was issued. Ghezel Hesar is not an ordinary prison. It is a site associated with executions, fear, and systematic repression. The regime uses such prisons to isolate, silence, and break political prisoners. Yet Younesi\u2019s words show that prison has also become a platform of resistance, where the regime\u2019s intended victims continue to speak to society with clarity and courage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran: Six PMOI Prisoners Sing &amp;quot;Rise Up Battalion&amp;quot; In Prison\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ZbvG-c7s_OQ\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZbvG-c7s_OQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZbvG-c7s_OQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M57S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2026-05-04T09:05:49Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_ZbvG-c7s_OQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZbvG-c7s_OQ%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran: Six PMOI Prisoners Sing &quot;Rise Up Battalion&quot; In Prison<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZbvG-c7s_OQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZbvG-c7s_OQ%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran: Six PMOI Prisoners Sing &amp;quot;Rise Up Battalion&amp;quot; In Prison\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"This video shows six PMOI members\u2014Vahid Baniamerian, Babak Alipour, Pouya Ghobadi, Mohammad Taghavi, Abolhassan Montazar, and Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvar Kar\u2014executed on March 30\u2013April 4, performing \u201cRise Up Battalion,\u201d an anthem of the Resistance Units, in Ghezel Hesar Prison. Please visit our website to get more information: http:\/\/www.en.iranntv.com\/ \ud83d\udd14\ud835\udc03\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc27&#039;\ud835\udc2d \ud835\udc1f\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc20\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2d \ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc28 \ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc1b\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1b\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc28 \ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc2b \ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc27\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc25 \ud835\udc1f\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2b \ud835\udc26\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc1d\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2c. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@en_simayazadi\/?sub_confirmation=1 \ud83d\udd17 Stay Connected With Us. Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Simay-Azadi-Tv-En\/61567188496965\/ Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/en_simayazadi\/ Twitter (X): https:\/\/x.com\/en_simayazadi Website: http:\/\/www.en.iranntv.com\/ \ud83d\udce9 For business inquiries: contact@iranntv.com ============================= \ud83c\udfacSuggested videos for you: \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=plUvZ3xtkJ4 \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQmVEtdXEuY \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O9HsfU7IkuE \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7zq9oRXtDTI \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n1oDDESVUBQ \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6rj-Br5JuXY \u25b6\ufe0f https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QCrtiYB_LAI ================================= \ud83d\udd0e Related Phrases: Hashtags\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His message also exposes the two parallel attempts to control the meaning of political resistance in Iran. The ruling regime seeks to turn resistance into repentance, using \u201camnesty\u201d as a tool of humiliation and propaganda. At the same time, monarchist forces seek to turn the sacrifice of political prisoners into a ladder for their own return to power. Younesi\u2019s response to both is firm: no.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This \u201cno\u201d is not merely a rejection. It is a positive political statement. Younesi declares that he stands on the side of the people and for the people, and that this stand will continue until freedom, democracy, and a democratic republic are established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ali Younesi\u2019s statement is a defence of historical memory, political clarity, and democratic principle. It honours the executed prisoners of today, recalls the freedom-seekers executed under the Shah, and insists that Iran\u2019s future must not be built by recycling old forms of oppression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From behind the walls of Ghezel Hesar, Younesi has reminded Iranians that the struggle is not between rival claimants to power, but between dictatorship and freedom. He has declared where he stands: beside the people, for the people, and on the side of a democratic republic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that, in the face of both the mullahs and the remnants of the monarchy, is the blood-soaked boundary he refuses to cross.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Full text of Ali Younesi\u2019s letter translated into English:<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ghezel Hesar Prison \u2013 May 26, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent days, I and my statement have been supported by some of the creators and users of the slogan\u00a0\u201cDeath to the Three Corrupt Figures\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It seems that after receiving the Leader\u2019s pardon, I have now also been granted a royal pardon!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a small supporter of the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), I have my role models: my six proud cellmates who were sent to the gallows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the blood of these six and other freedom-seekers leaves no room for forgiveness between us and the Sheikh, then the blood of\u00a0Hanif and his companions\u2014whose banner these six carried\u2014also leaves no room for unity between us and the Shah and his SAVAK.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Shah, through the killing of freedom-seekers, paved the way for this regime to come to power. And today, the remnants of the Shah, through the slogan\u00a0\u201cDeath to the Three Corrupt Figures\u2026\u201d, are effectively calling on the Mullahs to repay their favor by helping them reach power through executions, so that they may ride the wave of the bloodshed of the January uprising and, by begging foreign governments for power, once again sit upon the throne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But never.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is a border between us and them\u2014a blood-soaked border; the border between dictatorship and freedom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These boundaries must never be blurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I stand on this side of that border, alongside the people and for the people, under the slogan:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDeath to the oppressor, whether the Shah or the Supreme Leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And this stand will not stop until freedom, democracy, and a democratic republic have been established.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ali Younesi<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Qezel Hesar Prison<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>May 26, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest statement by Ali Younesi, the imprisoned elite student and political prisoner held in Ghezel Hesar Prison, is more than a response to the misuse of his name and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":225505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,60],"tags":[222],"class_list":["post-345435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran-resistance","category-maryam-rajavi","tag-iranian-resistance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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