While Nicholas Kristof recently published in the New York Times his baseless accusation that the IDF engages in sexual torture, including his claim that Israeli soldiers “train dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners,” the real victims of sexual torture in the Middle East are to be found elsewhere. These are the prisoners that the Islamic Republic of Iran holds in Evin Prison and similar torture houses. And the New York Times, that continues to defend Kristof’s infamous column and to accuse his critics of trying to “stifle journalism,” when all they are trying to do is to point out his lies, has failed completely to report on the sexual torture inflicted on prisoners in Iran. More on that torture can be found here: “Iranian men and women describe horrific abuse at the hands of regime guards specialising in ‘sexual torture,'” by Eliana Silver, Daily Mail, May 17, 2026:
Detainees in Iran’s prisons are being subjected to beatings, rape and psychological abuse, according to testimonies that lay bare the lengths the Islamic Republic will go to crush dissent.
Despite the regime’s long-standing reputation for brutality, accounts of sexual violence and intimidation reveal a particularly disturbing pattern of abuse.
In a harrowing account to The Australian, a woman identified as Mina, a pseudonym, described her experience inside one of Iran’s notorious prisons.
‘They repeatedly struck my head with a Koran so hard that my nose began to bleed. The interrogator also touched my body under my clothes while using disgusting sexual language, and repeatedly asked which newspaper editors I had slept with.’
She added: ‘He told me, “I will bring your 12-year-old son here and make him rape you. Then you will confess on television”.’
Such accounts are not isolated, with a report by Amnesty International last month finding that thousands of Iranians are at risk of sexual violence, with children as young as 14 among those assaulted by IRGC-linked forces during the January protests.
Evidence suggests this pattern stretches back decades.
Researcher and former political prisoner Iraj Mesdaghi has documented abuses from the 1980s, including testimony from a 14-year-old boy tortured by Mohammad Mehrayin, known as the ‘Butcher of Evin’….
The mainstream media in the United States — television, radio, newspapers, news sites online — should have reported on so many cases of sexual torture in Iran, that so many different sources have reported on, including those who were its victims, but until now their stories have received very little attention. Why is that? And why has Nicholas Kristof, with his great interest in the use of sexual torture, and his bully pulpit at the most prestigious American newspaper, not provided a single report on how that torture has been inflicted on prisoners, including children, in Iran?
Rick Gordon says
Obviously the NYT would never publish this!
Ugly 312 says
The NYT lost all credibility long ago.
They continue to perpetuate their left leaning agenda just as the paper of my youth, The Washington Pist has done.
I would not even let my animals believe themselves on either of those rags. There are more than those two, but they are fine examples of what has been happening in print journalism. No better than Instagram or Facebook.
Ugly 312 says
Pist was a typo, but I decided it fittingly should be left alone.
Wellington says
Ugly 312: Better left alone. It was a magnificent typo. Wish I could have one like that here at JW someday.
somehistory says
I like the typo about what your animals “believe” in regard to the *news* sources.
Wellington says
The MSM, as exampled by the NYT, has become an enemy of the West, just as many political parties in the West have (e.g., the Democratic Party of the USA).
Self-hate is a terrible wonder to behold. It comes with stupidity, historical ignorance, overall ignorance, moral idiocy and a lot of other rot. It is never a positive and should always be distinguished from informed self-criticism. It is actually self-criticism, a laudable phenomenon, taken to absurd and destructive dimensions.
Rampant in the West presently. You bet it is. For example, the NYT.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Among Iranians, it’s well known that while the regime murders dissidents, for female dissidents, they compound that by raping them first. All for the same reasons that they go after infidel women in both the West & East
Why does anyone pay any attention any more to what NYT says?
Alkflaeda says
I was wondering if their thinking was like that of the Inquisition – that hell is so terrible that no length is too far to go to get a heretic to repent – then I saw your post and remembered that their reason for raping virgins before they execute them is to ensure that they do go to hell. So clearly they are worse than the Inquisition, which had merely completely twisted and distorted any idea of church discipline. Thank you for the reminder.
somehistory says
“Despite the regime’s long-standing reputation for brutality”….shouldn’t that be “in addition to”?
There is no horror nor depth of evil to which muzlims will not descend. They are “doing the desires of their father” satan the devil. The demon snake’s desire is that all humans are just like him, and that all will die with him.
Alkflaeda says
I’m reminded that the Lord Jesus said “By their fruits shall you know them”.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
Regarding that horrendous prisons of sexual torture which are part of that horrific Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran.
This , in part, had been exposed by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine…The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [1]
The heinously vile malicious murderous evils of the “mullah regime” of Iran has no limits
[1] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
gravenimage says
And Walter, then they would sned the girl’s parents copies of the “marriage certificates” so they would know that their child was raped before being murdered. And while it is grotesque to assume that raping a child prevents her from going to heaven, it is still intended to cause the parents even more pain. *Ugly stuff*.
Walter Sieruk says
The reprehensible brutal cruel vile and heinous sex violations sanctioned by that severely evil Islamic regime of Iran are nefarious abominations to the most demonical extent possible.
OLD GUY says
Islam is sick and full of hate and violence. How any one can defend Islam as a religion is insane.
mems says
Another insightful article by Fitzgerald! From reports, and not just from Amnesty International, we find that the Islamic Republic of Iran is run by sadisic pedophiles who, in fact, believe that “marriage” of a 9-year-old girl to an elderly man or Imam (as it Turrey’s Dinayet Religious Ministry) is “normal”! (In Turkey their Religious Ministry “allows” 9-year-old girls to marry Imams!)
The terrorist regime of Iran is committing sexual crimes, but their religion dictates also tht pedophilia be the norm set by their Govenment and religion! In 1979, the Aytolah khameni legitimized “marriage” of 9-year-old girls! The Guards can abduct young girls from the homes of “apostates”, jail them and then “distribute” them among the other higher-ranking Guards!
When is the world going to wake up that a regime that has Pedophilia enshrined in its Law, underguise of Religion, is one the the worst crimes against humanity? European countries are now suffering from Pakistani human sex trafficking gangs that have for decades enslaved children and used them for sexual purposes.
Keir Starmer has imposed silence on this outrage and has legitimized such actions by refusing to launch legal proceedings against the known perpetrators operating under fulll protection from the UK Police and Islamophile UK Governments..
gravenimage says
Important stuff from the Daily Mail–thank you, Mr. Fitzgerald. Islam is all about sexual torture–the texts of Islam are full of it, and the “Prophet” Muhammed practiced it.