On the morning of March 31, 2026, the Iranian regime hanged 33-year-old PMOI members Pouya Ghobadi and Babak Alipour. Their deaths were part of a brutal 48-hour wave of executions that also claimed the lives of two other political prisoners and PMOI members, Mohammad Taghavi and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar.

But Pouya, a 33-year-old electrical engineer, was not just a victim of the regime’s flawed judicial system; he was a deeply conscious intellectual. While the regime attempted to silence him by cutting off communications and sending him to the gallows, his secretly penned letters from Evin and Fashafouyeh (Greater Tehran) prisons have survived.

These writings offer a profound glimpse into the mind of Iran’s youth, showcasing a man who consciously chose the dangerous path of resisting tyranny and maintained his unwavering support for the PMOI until his last breath.

Refusing the comfort of an “ordinary life”

In a manifesto written in Evin Prison on March 24, 2025, Pouya reflected on his youth and the moral calling that drove him to political........

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