Forough Khosravi, a schoolteacher from Behbahan in Iran’s Khuzestan province, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Iranian judiciary. The verdict was issued on Sunday, November 2, 2025, by Branch 1 of the Behbahan Revolutionary Court.
Forough Khosravi, an elementary school teacher, faced a series of politically motivated charges during her trial on Saturday, November 1, 2025. According to the court’s ruling, she was sentenced to:
- One year for “propaganda against the State,”
- Two years for “insulting Ali Khamenei,”
- Two years for “insulting Ruhollah Khomeini,”
- Five years for “insulting sacred values,” and
- Five years for “communicating with media outlets affiliated with Israel.”
Under Iran’s “aggregation of sentences” law, only the harshest sentence, five years’ imprisonment, will be enforced.
The charges against Forough Khosravi reportedly stem from a few private text messages exchanged with a family member and several Instagram stories she had posted expressing dissent in previous years.
Mrs. Khosravi was arrested on July 29, 2025, after the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) intelligence agents raided her home. She was detained for eleven days and interrogated at Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, before being temporarily released on bail set at 2 billion tomans. During the arrest, security agents also confiscated her husband’s mobile phone.
Earlier, on June 20, 2025, IRGC intelligence agents had raided her home without a warrant, seizing her personal belongings, including her mobile phone.
Forough Khosravi with a PhD in Education was previously expelled from Payam Noor University after the 2009 protests, a pattern seen among many educators and citizens in Iran who challenge the regime.
