Iranian police officers are gang-raping imprisoned female protesters and removing their uteruses to conceal the abuse before returning their bodies to grieving families, according to testimony from witnesses and refugees who escaped the regime's crackdown.
The allegations emerge as Iran's theocratic government continues its brutal suppression of nationwide anti-regime demonstrations that erupted last month. More than 50,000 people have been arrested. More than 7,000 are reportedly dead.
The scale of what is being described is not a crackdown. It is systematic extermination.
An Iranian source who witnessed the massacre of protesters firsthand painted a picture of daily, organized savagery inside the regime's detention facilities.
"They are raping men and women in jail. They are being raped every day by [a] group of police. We are not people to [the regime]. People are getting raped in the jail every day."
The source described a number of torture techniques, including starvation, beatings, and killings.
An Iranian refugee separately confirmed the accounts, NY Post reports, that that detainees were gang-raped at gunpoint by masked men and turned into "sexual slaves" who were mocked for their political beliefs. The cruelty was not incidental. It was the point.
Perhaps the most chilling detail involves what happened to the women's bodies after death. Some female detainees were allegedly mutilated to erase evidence of the sexual violence inflicted on them. The refugee told News Nation:
"Some of the women's bodies that were returned to their families were missing their wombs so that the crimes could not be traced or investigated."
The families, shattered and terrorized, largely did not pursue the matter. The refugee acknowledged as much: most stayed silent "to avoid even more suffering." This is how a regime enforces complicity in its own atrocities. Kill the prisoner, destroy the evidence, then dare the family to speak.
One photograph obtained by News Nation showed the body of a woman imprisoned in Bojnord. She was returned to her family 25 days after her detention, bearing what the refugee described as "clear signs of torture and trauma."
Twenty-five days. Whatever was done to her, the regime took its time.
Shaghayegh Moradiannejad, an Iranian photographer who escaped the country with her family five years ago, confirmed that none of this is new. Torture, she said, has "always been the regime's method."
"During interrogations, they squeeze their breasts, use obscene and degrading language, and subject them to sexual abuse."
The detainees swept up in this crackdown are not militants. According to activists, the more than 50,000 arrested include students, children, lawyers, and doctors. Ordinary Iranians who committed the unforgivable sin of demanding something better than theocratic tyranny.
This is worth dwelling on for a moment. Western progressives who spent years lecturing Americans about "women's rights" and "bodily autonomy" have been conspicuously quiet about a regime that literally carves organs from the bodies of women it raped to death. The selective outrage is revealing. Performative feminism apparently stops at the borders of nations whose governments are politically inconvenient to criticize.
President Trump has warned that the killings, combined with Iran's failure to agree to a new nuclear deal, could provoke direct military action. Tehran responded with threats of all-out war.
The regime's calculation has always been the same: commit horrors behind closed doors, threaten escalation if anyone intervenes, and count on the international community to wring its hands and do nothing. For decades, that bet paid off. Under previous administrations, Iran's leadership watched the West issue stern statements while the torture chambers stayed open.
The question now is whether the calculus has changed. With more than 7,000 dead and tens of thousands detained in conditions that can only be described as industrial-scale brutality, the Iranian regime is testing the world's tolerance for evil conducted in plain sight.
Somewhere in Iran tonight, a family is receiving a body. They will not be told what happened. They will know anyway. And they will say nothing, because the regime has made silence the price of survival.
