On the morning of March 31, 2026, the Iranian regime executed 34-year-old law graduate and political prisoner Babak Alipour, alongside his fellow inmate Pouya Ghobadi. Their hangings came just 24 hours after the executions of two other members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from the exact same case. Yet, while the ruling clerics used the gallows to physically eliminate Babak, newly released handwritten letters penned during his imprisonment prove that the regime completely failed to crush his spirit.

Babak’s writings from inside the Greater Tehran and Ghezel Hesar prisons offer a profound glimpse into the mind of a young, educated Iranian who knowingly sacrificed his life for a free, democratic, and secular Iran. His words stand as a powerful testament to the resilience of the Iranian Resistance and a direct defiance of the mullahs’ dictatorship.

Finding courage in fallen comrades

On August 1, 2025, Babak wrote a letter from the Greater Tehran Prison. He penned these words just days after the regime........

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