In another criminal act, the Iranian regime’s judiciary executed two members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), Pouya Ghabadi and Babak Alipour, in Ghezel Hesar Prison. The two political prisoners were hanged on Tuesday, March 31.
It should be recalled that two other PMOI members, Mohammad Taghavi and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, were executed on Monday, March 30. Mizan, the state-run news agency linked to the Iranian regime’s judiciary, said the charges against these two PMOI members were participation in armed operations aimed at striking the regime’s security apparatus.
Iran’s Regime Executes Two Members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
Mizan wrote: Babak Alipour was an organizational member of the PMOI who had a history of ties with the group going back years, and his father had also been affiliated with the PMOI in the 1980s.
Mizan said Pouya Ghabadi was charged with taking part in multiple armed operations linked to the PMOI and carrying out repeated actions against the regime’s security.
Biography of Pouya Ghabadi
Former political prisoner Pouya Ghabadi, born in 1992 in Sonqor, was an electrical engineering graduate. He was most recently arrested on December 22, 2023, and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, where he was tortured and interrogated. He was later moved to the prison’s general ward.
His trial, along with seven political prisoners—Seyed Mohammad Taghavi, Mojtaba Taghavi, Babak Alipour, Vahid Bani Amerian, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Abolhassan Montazer—was held in a joint case at Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, on October 6, 2024.
On November 30, 2024, he, along with five other political prisoners—Vahid Bani Amerian, Babak Alipour, Seyed Abolhassan Montazer, Seyed Mohammad Taghavi, and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar—was sentenced to death and prison terms.
The charges against Pouya Ghabadi included acting against national security through membership in and effective cooperation with the PMOI, propaganda against the Iranian regime, destruction of state property, and assembly and collusion with intent to act against national security.
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Iran's regime has executed PMOI members Babak Alipour and Pouya Ghobadi. The political prisoners were hanged a day after the regime's criminal authorities executed two other PMOI members, Mohammad Taghavi and Ali Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar.Pouya Ghobadi, 33, an… pic.twitter.com/oKhiPV7CLu
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) March 31, 2026
Political prisoner Pouya Ghabadi had previously been arrested by security forces in April 2018 and, after four months of interrogation and torture, was transferred to the general ward of Evin Prison. In October 2019, he was moved from Evin to Greater Tehran Prison. After serving a one-year period under charges of “enmity against God,” he was sentenced in November 2021 to 10 years in prison.
Biography of Babak Alipour
Political prisoner Babak Alipour, born in 1991 and originally from Amol, held a bachelor’s degree in law. He and his brother Roozbeh Alipour were arrested on November 4, 2018, at the Rasht produce market.
Babak Alipour was sentenced by Branch one of the Rasht Revolutionary Court to 7 years in prison on charges of PMOI membership and insulting the supreme leader. The sentence was upheld in full appeal. He was ultimately taken into custody on July 3, 2019, to serve his sentence in Lakan Prison in Rasht. He was released after 2.5 years in prison.
He was arrested for a second time in Shahriar in November 2021 and, after serving 2 years of his sentence, was released from Ward four of Evin Prison in March 2023.
During his previous imprisonment, Babak Alipour developed an intestinal infection and prostate disease and spent long periods in severe pain without medical treatment.
He was arrested for a third time in Tehran in January 2024 and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. He remained in legal limbo there for four months.
In May 2024, after four months of uncertainty and detention in Ward 209, he and Vahid Bani Amerian were charged with “armed rebellion, membership in and cooperation with the PMOI, and assembly and collusion against the country’s security through cooperation with the PMOI.” These charges were formally communicated to him.
On May 21, 2024, Babak Alipour, along with four other political prisoners—Vahid Bani Amerian, Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghabadi, and Seyed Mohammad Taghavi—was transferred from Ward 209 of Evin to the quarantine section of Ward four.
The execution of four PMOI members—Mohammad Taghavi, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, Pouya Ghabadi, and Babak Alipour—amid conditions of war and bombardment reflects the regime’s fear and terror of its real and deeply rooted alternative, namely the Iranian Resistance. It also shows that the criminals, fearing the people’s anger and uprising, have no tool other than repression.
