Thread by @SinaToossi

👇Reports from BBC Persian & other sources indicate that this incident involving a young Iranian woman was a tragic mental health crisis.

After removing her underwear, she was detained & reportedly taken to a psychiatric facility.

Per BBC Persian:

"Two eyewitnesses, who were present during the incident, shared details with BBC Persian that differ from accounts of an altercation with security. They said the girl ‘unexpectedly entered several classrooms holding a mobile phone, as if she was recording students.’ According to them, an instructor, upset by her unauthorized entry, sent a student to ask her intentions. However, one witness reported that upon encountering students, she ‘started screaming.’

One of the witnesses told BBC that when they reached the courtyard, they saw the girl had undressed. According to these witnesses, there was ‘no confrontation between the girl and security.’ However, they only witnessed the girl’s unexpected entrance into classrooms. They said they are unaware of what transpired before she entered the classrooms or what occurred between her exit from the building and her undressing in the courtyard.

These eyewitnesses arrived after she had removed her clothes in the courtyard. According to them, the girl told students inside the building, ‘I came to save you.’ A social media user on X, who appears to be a university student, posted that she said, ‘I came to save you.’

University and Iranian Media Response

Amir Mahjoub, the Public Relations and Protocol Manager of Azad University, denied any confrontation between the girl, whom he referred to as a student, and university security in a post on X. Mahjoub stated that he was present at the police station after her arrest and reported, ‘Her physical condition was confirmed as fully stable by emergency responders.’

Mahjoub then explained:

‘Investigations reveal that due to a mental health issue, she began filming her classmates and instructor, prompting objections. This has happened before. When faced with protests from students and security, she quickly reached the courtyard and acted disrespectfully... What actually transpired indicates that her indecent behavior was not due to hijab enforcement but resulted from students and security objecting to her unauthorized filming and photographing, violating the privacy of students and instructors.’

Iranian media, including ISNA, also reported that this ‘student,’ after filming students, faced objections and subsequently undressed in response to these objections. They cited Azad University, stating that ‘this student is under severe psychological distress and has been transferred to a treatment facility.’”

Link: bbc.com/persian/articl…

2/ A fellow student who witnessed the incident tweeted yesterday, "I hadn’t even been able to digest the "foursome" yet when suddenly a girl was completely naked in the middle of Science and Research :))"

(the "foursome" refers to a separate viral incident😄)

This woman adds>

3/The fellow student & witness responded to someone claiming "they tore her clothes," saying:

"My dear, it wasn’t a protest action. She came into the classrooms, filmed the students, and when the professors objected, she started cursing, went outside, and suddenly took off all her clothes. Why do you all make it sound so dramatic?"

4/ The student’s account, "Sushi @Soniaqvti," appears to have been deactivated following a wave of abuse, mainly from monarchist opposition accounts. However, her account was legit (and contained anti-government comments going back years) & aligns with BBC's reporting.

5/ This cached image of her account also confirms that she is a student at Tehran's Islamic Azad University of Science and Research and had a history of activism critical of the government—adding credibility to her account of what she witnessed.

6/ Another user on X, who also claims to be a classmate of the woman involved in this incident and appears credible based on her post history, writes: “There was no attack. Ms. A.D., my classmate in French Literature, does not have stable mental health. She has numerous disciplinary records at the university and has caused significant physical and psychological disturbances for us and other students.”

She further explains, “The last time, I lost one of my friends because of her. She secretly recorded a video of him shaking hands and took it to security, saying, ‘They’re not related; why are they shaking hands?’ According to what she herself has shared in class and the arguments she would start, she’s divorced from her husband, and this man is her temporary husband.”

Source: x.com/taraneCL/statu…

7/ To clarify, based on the available facts, witness reports, and video evidence, this incident appears to be a mental health crisis rather than an act of protest where she was beaten and undressed in defiance.

That said, it’s important to acknowledge the connection between mental health struggles and the broader repression and pressures faced by women in Iran. No one can claim to fully understand her state of mind.

My focus here, however, is on addressing the specific claim that she was beaten over her hijab, prompting her to remove her clothes in protest. I have not seen any credible evidence to support this claim.

8/ The original claim that she was beaten then undressed in protest came from a Telegram channel with about 10k followers.

This channel has also posted IDF kill charts, praised Israeli assassinations, made racist remarks about Afghan migrants, and spread baseless claims like "Hamas" and "Hashd al-Shaabi" students taking over Iranian universities.

Make of that what you will.

Link to their original post claiming this narrative as an "exclusive": t.me/EEAUT/8921

@never_oppressed