The smuggled video, obtained by The Sunday Times, captures
the men in the courtyard of the notorious Ghezel Hesar prison, making a final
stand against the Islamic Republic.
'Your rival stands before you now, hardened in the flame — I
am the faith, I am revolt, with belief I take my stand — I've sworn an oath
upon my blood, the tyrant's throne shall shatter,' they are heard singing in
Farsi in the footage from February.
The men have been identified as Vahid Baniamerian, Babak
Alipour, Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and
Mohammad Taghavi.
Pouya Ghobadi, 33, an electrical engineer from Sonqor in the
west of Iran, was tortured before the Iranian regime hanged him on March 31,
according to Amnesty International. He was accused of armed rebellion against
the state and membership in an outlawed organisation, as was Vahid Baniamerian,
who was executed on April 4.
Baniamerian appeared in another smuggled video, speaking
directly to then-Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
'To the Supreme Leader who wants to execute us to create fear in society. I
want to remind you that I and those like me rose from the blood of
freedom-loving youth,' the 33-year-old said.
'It is time for the world to correct the failed and
disruptive policies of the past decades, policies which have only fuelled
massacre and devastation in Iran,' he said in the footage.
'Spreading war and terrorism throughout the region and the
world. How much more suffering must there be before the world moves beyond
words of concern to decisive action?'
Executed the same day was Abolhassan Montazer, a former
political prisoner who had spent 11 years behind bars under the Shah and was
then imprisoned under the current regime.
Babak Alipour, a 34-year-old law graduate, had spent three
years on death row in Iran's notorious detention centres before his execution
on March 31.
On March 12 he made a short video on a phone smuggled into
his cell, saying: 'Dictators have come, been overthrown, died, and been killed,
and now it is the turn of Khamenei-the-son's dictatorship.'
Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar was a civil engineer and the father of a 12-year-old
son. The 57-year-old was hanged on March 25.
He had been imprisoned for over two years and subjected to
months of torture and interrogation in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
His charges, included 'armed rebellion' and 'collusion
against the security of the miserable clerical regime.'
On the same day, 66-year-old Mohammed Taghavi was executed,
ending a life marked by years of imprisonment as a political dissident.
In a letter from Fashafouyeh Prison dated August 7, 2025, he
defiantly wrote: 'I will not bargain with anyone over my life.'
'I swear to fight valiantly until my last breath and to die
standing, and to the last step.'
The video of the singing prisoners emerged as it was
revealed earlier this month that Iran hanged at least 1,639 people in 2025,
making it the highest number in 37 years, according to two NGOs.
Watch the video below..
Iranian men bravely put on defiant final act of resistance by singing- moments before being executed by the regime. pic.twitter.com/qUY4h7TZH8
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 27, 2026
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