What’s behind the recent anti-Iranian media content about Qezel Hesar Prison?

The coordinated, fabricated video — published simultaneously across various anti-Iranian and opposition platforms — shows a prison hall at Qezel Hesar where several inmates are seen sitting on the floor outside their cells. A narrator in the video claims that the prisoners are on strike to protest the execution of their cellmates.

The individuals mentioned in the video were the same violent armed robbers, known as the “Gangsters,” whose death sentences were recently carried out after the completion of legal procedures.

The narrative that opposition media attempted to create was, in reality, related to the punishment of these armed robbers — criminals who terrorized citizens by breaking into homes at night while residents were asleep, brandishing military-grade weapons, and stealing their valuables.

These robbers even showed no mercy to young girls, stealing jewelry from their ears under threat and intimidation. In one such terrifying incident, a young girl in a family they attacked reportedly developed a speech impediment due to the trauma.

The campaign to defame Iran’s prisons and spread false claims about prison conditions has for some time been one of the main projects of anti-Iranian media. These outlets show no concern for public safety; they go so far as to produce sympathetic coverage even for armed robbers who shattered the psychological security of society — turning the perpetrators of terror into supposed victims.