A Personal Story: Understanding the Brutality of the Iranian Regime

The Men Who Stand on Pregnant Stomachs

“I was a university student, almost seven months pregnant, when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) came,” Kobra Jowkar says softly. “They raided our home at midnight and were very ruthless.”

That ruthlessness, she claims, included kicking her around like a soccer ball — and walking on her bulging belly. The worst would come later, behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison, when guards mauled her raw flesh with cables and sticks in front of her husband, knowing he could do nothing but watch, unable to protect his young wife and unborn first child.

This is barely the tip of the iceberg.