03/28/2026
A shocking report on the abuse of women from Iran: Security forces abuse nurses who treated protesters. Warning - a difficult and graphic story.
The report by the media channel "Iran International", published in several newspapers around the world (including in Israel), reveals that two nurses working at a hospital in Tehran were arrested and severely tortured, including gang r**e by Iranian security forces, after providing medical care to injured protesters during the wave of protests in January 2026. According to testimonies from anonymous sources, one of the 33-year-old nurses was repeatedly sexually assaulted by groups of security agents, attacks that led to serious physical injuries that required partial bowel resection and possibly even a hysterectomy. Her mental condition was described as very serious, and she is hospitalized under guard with her hands tied to the bed for fear that she would try to harm herself, after she asked doctors not to save her life. The second nurse who was arrested also suffered similar intestinal injuries and underwent a complete hysterectomy following the severe abuse she suffered while in custody.
On January 8, when dozens of protesters with gunshot wounds were brought to a hospital in Tehran, the Revolutionary Guards ordered medical staff to refrain from providing treatment. Of the 27 staff members present, 14 refused the order and attempted to continue treating the wounded, leading to a violent raid by security forces on the medical facility. During the raid, the forces opened fire on some of the wounded and attacked staff members who resisted their orders. Of the seven nurses who continued to treat them, two were shot dead in front of their colleagues and their bodies were found days later in a detention facility, and five more nurses were arrested and disappeared for weeks.
The family of one of the sisters was forced to pay a large sum of money to an intelligence officer to secure her release, signing a fictitious document stating that she was in a “temporary marriage” with one of the agents. As part of the conditions of her release, she was forced to sign a false statement claiming that she had been r**ed by “rioters” and not by regime forces.
Thousands of anti-government protesters in Iran are still detained, and some – including minors – have disappeared, and nothing is known about them.