Navid was a nationally known athlete, a wrestler.

Wrestling is Iran's national sport.

Navid was a member of the country's national team, having won trophies and medals in many national and international competitions in both freestyle and Greco-Roman style.

Navid was 27 years old when he died on the gallows in a prison in his hometown of Shiraz on October 2, 2020.

Two years earlier, he and his younger brothers Vahid and Habib had taken part in demonstrations against the tripling of petrol prices.

In Shiraz, like in 120 other cities in Iran, several hundred thousand demonstrators were on the streets for days.

Finally, the Revolutionary Guards brutally crushed the uprising.

At least 1,500 protesters were killed, news agencies reported.

Navid's last sentence becomes a dictum

After Navid's execution, his two younger brothers were sentenced to long prison terms.

Vahid to 54 years in prison and 74 lashes, Habib to 27 years and 72 lashes.

Now it was Sister Elham's turn.

Since the death of her brother, Elham has repeated his last sentence in all interviews: "They are looking for a neck for their gallows." The sentence has become a catchphrase for the arbitrariness of the regime.

Earlier this month, Revolutionary Guard agencies reported that anonymous soldiers of the hidden imam had located and arrested terrorist Elham Afkari.

Her picture, blindfolded and head bowed in a barred police van, appeared all over the internet.

She and her three-year-old child were arrested in their apartment in Shiraz.

Said, her youngest brother who is still free, tweeted that the family did not know where she was to bring her the news that her child is now free.

Broadcaster declared "enemy media".

Elham's "act of terrorism" was an interview she gave to the Persian-language TV station Iran International.

The day before, this station had been declared a terrorist organization by the secret service minister, Esmail Khatib.

Any contact with the station is an act of terrorism, a collaboration with the enemy, the minister announced.

"Enemy media" - that's a common term that you hear every time, in all speeches by Ali Khamenei, the most powerful man in the country.

And what do you do with the "enemy"?

As always, execution is the quickest method chosen by the men of God to solve their problems of rulership.

No wonder the country tops the international execution rankings.

But in the field of media, the Islamic Republic has lost the "war".

Looking at the fronts of this war, one is stunned to see who defeated whom.

On one side are the best-equipped troops of "Seda and Sima": These two words with the same initial sound mean "voice and face" in Persian.

If you say them together in one breath, it sounds meaningful and poetic at the same time.