Overview

• Her mother, father and younger brother were seized on June 21 by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and remain in custody at an undisclosed location.
• The journalist received a phone call from her detained father with security agents audible in the background, during which he urged her to resign.
• Iran International denounced the detentions as an appalling act of hostage-taking aimed at silencing its reporting on the Iran–Israel conflict.
• Tehran has labeled Iran International a terrorist organization and previously targeted its staff, including a 2024 stabbing of one of its journalists.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists ranks Iran among the world’s top jailers of journalists, highlighting the regime’s broader campaign against independent media.