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Haunting audio message of defiant dad who faces execution in Iran as he exposes torture & hellhole jail abuse
A DAD set to be executed in Iran has blasted its brutal regime in a powerful voice message recorded behind bars.
Mehdi Hassani, 48, was handed a death sentence on trumped-up charges and has been tortured in jail.
He now faces imminent execution after his appeal to be spared death was rejected by Iran’s merciless rulers.
But defiant Hassani has unleashed a blistering put down of Iran’s “cruelty and oppression” in a voice message to his daughter Maryam that has been shared with The Sun.
The dad-of-three said: “This regime has for the past 46 years spent the country’s wealth on warmongering and suppressing the people of Iran.
“If I’m in prison today and have been sentenced to execution, it is only because I could not tolerate seeing such cruelty and oppression against this nation and against the children of my land and I stood up against oppression.
“They have no evidence against me and they didn’t even allow my lawyer to access and study my file so that he could expose the contradictions that exist.”
Hassani – who was arrested in September – vowed the regime is “doomed to perish”.
He added: “Just as I have always tried to do my best for you, your sister and brother, I believe it to be my duty to fight as much as I can for all of Iran’s children.
“My only wish is for Iran to be free and for you and my people to be happy.
“History has shown that oppression never lasts.”
Hassani was arrested in September and suffered physical and mental torture after being transferred to Evin Prison.
His charges for which he has been sentenced to death include “rebellion, war, and corruption on earth, membership in the Mujahideen and collecting classified information”.
The dad’s death sentence has now been upheld by the unsparing regime – as well as that of another political prisoner, Behrouz Ehsani, 69.
It comes as 14 prisoners were hanged in less than 24 hours on March 1.
Iran has accelerated its execution rate in an inhumane act of intimidation as the regime fears being overthrown.
In February, 100 people were executed – including 20 hanged on February 26 alone and one man hanged in public two days later.
History has shown that oppression never lasts.
Mehdi Hassani
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) fears the true toll is much higher as many of the deaths are kept secret, however.
Hossein Abedini, the deputy director of the UK offices of the NCRI, said: “Between February 26 and March 3, 2025, a total of 65 prisoners were executed.
“The religious dictatorship aims to instill fear among rebellious youth, particularly the Resistance Units. However, protests have now spread inside prisons.
“Silence and inaction in the face of a regime known for executions and terrorism undermine universal human rights principles and embolden the regime to continue its crimes with impunity.
“It is essential for the international community to take robust action against the regime.”
Families of prisoners sentenced to death – including Hassani’s – have staged protests outside Evin Prison for three weeks in a row.
Iran ramps up executions
by Katie Davis, Chief Foreign Reporter (Digital)
PARANOID Iranian leaders are hellbent on ramping up repression on home turf in a dramatic bid to stamp out rebellion, insiders say.
It comes as Iran’s regime has been left red-faced by the downfall of Syria’s dictatorship as well as severe defeats of its terror proxies.
Executions are said to be taking place every couple of hours as Iran slaughters its people in “unprecedented numbers”.
Iran has one of the most horrific human rights records in the world, and according to campaigners also holds the harrowing title for the highest execution rate.
The Sun previously revealed how dozens of people had been sentenced to death by stoning just for adultery.
Harrowing records leaked from Iran’s torturous prisons also showed how thousands were holed up on death row for petty crimes.
In 2024, the Iranian regime ramped up the executions of its own people – including women, children and political prisoners.
Official records show that the number of executions last year reached 1,000 – the highest number in 30 years and 16 percent higher than the previous.
Of those on record, 34 were women and seven were under 18 at the time of their so-called crimes.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) fears the true toll is much higher as many of the deaths are kept secret, however.
Since the start of this year, at least 82 executions have been recorded
Most of the surging executions are by hanging, but there is also evidence of other medieval torture punishments including public flogging, limb-removal and eye-gouging.
Holding photos of their loved ones and huge banners, they demanded the executions be repealed.
In a heartbreaking plea previously shared with The Sun, Hassani’s daughter Maryam begged for help.
She accused the regime of trying to delay its “inevitable overthrow through executions”.
Fighting back tears, Maryam said: “We are very worried about my father’s life. I ask you not to leave us alone, be our voice and help us.
“It is possible that my father could have been any of your fathers. My dad is innocent. We must remove all the charges against him.
“He was always worried about the country, worrying for his children and their future. Please help us.
“My dad might lose his life. I ask you to be our voice.”
Huge blow for Dancing On Ice finalist as series closer ‘becomes a two-horse race’
A DANCING On Ice finalist has been hit with a major blow ahead of tomorrow night’s show.
Three contestants remain in the series closer – Michaela Strachan, Sam Aston and Anton Ferdinand – though only two have a chance of winning, according to a leading bookmaker.
Retired footballer Anton, 40, has very wide odds of 20/1 with Ladbrokes, leading the bookmaker to claim it will be a two-horse race.
Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “He’s arguably been one of the standout performers of the series, but Anton’s got no chance of taking home this year’s crown, if the latest odds are anything to go by.”
Michaela, 58, is the favourite at 4/7 while Coronation Street star Sam, 31, is at 6/4.
Anton himself didn’t expect to make it beyond the semi-finals in which he beat Dan Edgar in the skate-off.
He previously said: “If you had said to me at the start of it that I would have got to the semi-finals I would have said no chance, but I am here and I here because of you guys.
“Thanks for voting for me, keep voting for me.”
If Michaela were to win, she’d be one of just five women to lift the trophy.
There have been claims from viewers that female celebs are treated more harshly on the ice than their male counterparts.
But former show pro Alex Murphy insists the programme isn’t sexist.
Speaking to The Sun, Alex – who has won DOI twice – said: “Oh, I don’t think it’s sexist. If I’m honest, I think it’s just so simple.
“I think the audience is smart, and the audience knows that it is extremely hard for a man to lift a professional ice skater and learn how to skate.
“I think then they look at it and go, ‘But the female doesn’t have to. The female celebrity doesn’t have to learn to lift. So the men have to learn two different disciplines’.
“And I think they go, ‘Wow! That must be so much harder for them’.
“So I think that they give them more votes and they feel more, maybe not respect towards them, but they feel like, ‘Wow! They’ve got it harder. They drew the short stick’. Almost.
“I think that’s why it carries over, even though the women are fantastic every year.”
Alex went on to list a string of female celebrity DOI contestants who have impressed her, including Olympic gymnast Beth Tweddle who won the show in 2013 and soap star Hayley Tamaddon, who won in 2010.
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Mollie Pearce and Colin Grafton – couple were sixth to be booted off
Charlie Brooks and Eric Radford – EastEnders star loses out in the skate-off
Chris Taylor and Robin Johnstone – after Robin replaced injured pro Vanessa Bauer, the couple were the first to be eliminated after the return of the skate-off
Sir Steve Redgrave and Vicky Ogden – third to be voted off
Ferne McCann and Brendyn Hatfield – second pairing to be voted off
Josh Jones and Tippy Packard – quits show after injury during rehearsals
Chelsee Healey and Andy Buchanan – first to be eliminated
Sarah Storey revealed she had quit on December 6, 2024. The Paralympian was partnered with Sylvain Longchambon.
How MH370 vanishing unfolded minute-by-minute from airport CCTV to cockpit message – & why search could move to NEW area
ELEVEN years ago today, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur Airport bound for Beijing with 239 passengers onboard.
Eerie footage from airport cameras shows the pilot and co-pilot being frisked before boarding the flight.
But less than an hour into its doomed flight it would vanish from radar systems and into oblivion.
It was inconceivable to not just the aviation industry but every single member of the flying public around the world that a Boeing 777 could simply disappear into thin air.
The vanishing has remained a mystery for over a decade, leaving loved ones without answers and experts no closer to the truth despite several searches for the wreckage.
In the weeks, months and days that followed, a series of bizarre clues came to light, each more baffling than the last.
Satellite data showed the plane had continued to fly for several hours towards the Southern Indian Ocean.
The pilot’s home flight simulator, shown below, was programmed to fly to an unknown destination in the Southern Indian Ocean until fuel exhaustion.
And several pieces of debris that washed up on shores raised more questions than answers.
With the launch of a fresh search that could be the very last, time is ticking to finally solve the MH370 riddle and bring closure to one of the world’s biggest mysteries.
The £55million hunt by underwater robotics company Ocean Infinity is underway, covering an area mostly explored in previous searches.
Marine tracking data shows the Ocean Infinity vessel Amarda 7806 going back and forth over a previously searched area in the Southern Indian Ocean.
Former naval oceanographer Peter Waring, who was part of the search for MH370 in 2014, told The Sun that he was hopeful the plane could be found despite skepticism.
He also believed that the search team could move onto other areas mapped out by different experts as part of the latest hunt.
Although it’s yet to be seen whether they will go elsewhere after the initial 15,000sqkm…from what I can tell, [the search is] a bit of a mix of redoing both areas covered originally by the ATSB search and also areas that were covered by Ocean Infinity.
Why the lack of transparency, if the intent is to try and keep their options open by allowing themselves the opportunity to do the first 15,000sqkm and then move elsewhere, which I think makes a lot of sense.
If anyone were to ask my opinion on what they should do, I would say that that they should visit all of the identified hotspots, including that by identified by Simon Hardy.
The Sun previously spoke to Boeing pilot Simon Hardy, pictured here, about his proposed search area just beyond the 7th arc.
Experts from an independent group and those who believe WSPR technology holds the key have also mapped out areas where they think the jet could be found.
On the 11th Anniversary of MH370’s shocking disappearance, The Sun revisits the fateful day the doomed flight was lost.
March 8 2014
MH370 is scheduled to depart Kuala Lumpur Airport in the early hours of Saturday morning bound for Beijing, China.
The flight was a regular red-eye trip and one of two daily trips operated by the airline, taking five hours and 34 minutes, landing at 6.30am.
Onboard were two pilots, 52-year-old Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, pictured here.
And co-pilot 26-year-old First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, seen here:
There were also 10 cabin crew and 227 passengers who were mostly Chinese and Malaysian.
Nationalities of passengers onbaord flight MH370
All of the 12 crew members were Malaysian...
China: 152
Malaysia: 38
Indonesia: 7
Australia: 6
India: 5
France: 4
United States: 3
New Zealand: 2
Ukraine: 2
Canada: 2
Russia: 1
Italy: 1
Netherlands: 1
Austria: 1
Taiwan: 1
12.42am
The Boeing 777 takes off from runway 32R climbing to 18,000ft.
The co-pilot makes contact with air traffic control before take-off, while the Captain speaks after the departure.
At 12.46pm, the plane is cleared to reach 35,000ft – the crew confirm altitude twice, once at 1.01am and again at 1.08am.
1.06am
The plane makes its final transmission before its disappearance – an automated position report sent using the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System known as ACARS.
The message includes data such as fuel remaining, flight origin, destination and real-time tracking.
1.19am
The final verbal communication with the plane also takes place – Captain Zaharie acknowledges a transition from Kuala Lumpur airspace to Ho Chi Minh air traffic control.
Listen here:
The crew should have signalled to Ho Chi Minh as the plane entered Vietnamese airspace, but it failed to do so.
1.20am
MH370 is seen in Kuala Lumpur air traffic control radar heading towards the waypoint IGARI in the Gulf of Thailand, but five seconds later the jet vanishes from the screen.
It also disappears from Ho Chi Minh’s radar at the same time.
MH370 was gone for nearly 20 minutes before air traffic controllers realised it had vanished from screens, according to a Malaysian Government report.
It also took a further four hours to launch a rescue operation.
Ground crews attempt to use secondary radar to track the aircraft, which relies on a signal from a transponder onboard the plane, but the transponder is no longer functioning.
The plane is offline and is flying completely dark 39 minutes into its doomed flight.
Ground crew desperately begin trying to make contact with the vanished plane.
1.30am
Around the same time, the Malaysian military’s primary radar tracks MH370 making a sharp right turn before turning left towards the South West and across the Malay Peninsula.
This information doesn’t come to light until days after the plane’s mysterious disappearance, hampering the search and sparking backlash.
A passing aircraft attempts to make contact with MH370 to relay the message from Vietnamese air traffic control that they should reach out.
They use the international air distress frequency to make contact – a band reserved for emergency communications between aircraft.
But the captain of the nearby plane is only able to hear static and “mumbling”.
From 1.30am to 1.50 am, civilian primary radar at Sultan Ismail Petra Airport, Malaysia, tracks an unknown aircraft on four occasions.
1.52am
The Malaysian Airlines plane is tracked passing just south of the island of Penang before flying across the Malacca Strait.
2.20am
The last known radar detection with flight MH370 was on the edge of Malaysian military radar systems northwest of Penang airport, flying at an altitude of 29,500ft.
In the days after, other countries were reluctant to release radar information that could help the MH370 search, fearing it could give national security secrets to enemy states.
But Vietnam later revealed that the plane had been spotted turning back towards the West and informed Malaysian officials on March 8th.
The flight was not detected by Australia’s long-range JORN system, which has a range of 1,900 miles when it was mysteriously not in operation on the night of the disappearance.
2.25am
Five minutes later the plane’s satellite communications system suddenly reboots and sends a login request which is relayed to ground stations via an Inmarsat satellite.
The British company would provide key clues to MH370 investigators showing the plane flew for several hours into the Southern Indian Ocean in the days that followed.
After logging on to the network, the comms system responded to almost hourly requests from the Inmarsat satellite for the next six hours.
The pings were recorded as a series of “arcs” labelled 1 to 7, as shown below.
The plane is believed to have crashed near its final ping location, somewhere near the 7th arc.
2.39am
A call is made to the cockpit, which is unanswered, and another call made at 7.13am also rings out.
8.19am
The plane makes its final logon request an hour and 40 minutes after its scheduled arrival time in Beijing.
An eerie image shows the arrivals board at Beijing airport on March 8th marked as delayed.
It is the last piece of data received from the aircraft and it did not respond to a status request from the Inmarsat satellite at 9.15am.
MH370 AFTERMATH
At around 5.30am local time, Kuala Lumpur air traffic control initiated its search and rescue protocol and four hours later Malaysian Airlines released a statement confirming they were now searching for the missing jet.
On March 9, the Royal Malaysian Air Force announced that military radar may have tracked MH370 travelling over the Andaman Sea.
After this information came to light, the search, that had originally launched in the South China Sea, was extended.
Eventually satellite data from the British company Inmarsat suggested the plane turned towards the Southern Indian Ocean and flew on for several hours.
The plane has remained missing for over a decade despite numerous searches, but a £55million search by underwater robotics Ocean Infinity is currently underway.
It could be the last ever search, after the same area in the Southern Indian Ocean has already been combed twice.
Around 15,000sqkm of the search area is new, according to Peter.
It’s believed the team could be hunting areas of difficult terrain that may have been missed when the seabed was previously scoured.
Speaking about the launch of the new search, Peter added:
I had mixed feelings, firstly, happy that another effort was underway.
Also a little skeptical about where they’re searching and what I would describe as a bit of a lack of transparency around that.
And thirdly, I think if we don’t find the aircraft, if they don’t find it this time around, I think that would leave things in a pretty bad, not necessarily a final [search] but a pretty bad state and so I worry about the emotional toll that might take on everyone involved, of course, but primarily the family members.
So there’s a lot of reward on offer if they’re right, and I hope they are. But there’s also a great risk of it putting things back even further.
Having been involved in the previous ATSB search for the missing plane, Peter says that crews may be feeling differently about the hunt this time around.
He said:
I spoke to some of the guys that were out there for their first effort, and there was, I think, a sense of excitement.
I’m not entirely sure how the crew is made up now. Obviously, they’re running these minimally manned vessels, which are quite innovative and groundbreaking.
I think it’s probably a little bit lonelier out there than it would be usually on a ship.
I’m sure they’re very excited to be back out there, and I know that everyone at Ocean Infinity was really disappointed when they left the search last time, and they’ve been waiting for the opportunity to get back out there.
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