Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, teachers' union activist, summoned to the Langarud Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office

Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, a teachers' union activist, has been summoned to Branch 3 of the investigating magistrates of the Langarud public and revolutionary prosecutor's office in Gilan province. According to the news agency HRANA, which published the report on Saturday, 10 October 2026, citing the Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers' Trade Associations, a summons dated 5 October asks him to appear at the prosecutor's office within five days to "give explanations".

According to HRANA, the summons was issued following a complaint from a law-enforcement body, and the charge the Islamic Republic's judiciary has attributed to him is "propaganda against the system", a charge the government has repeatedly used to prosecute teachers, workers and civil activists.

Beheshti Langaroudi's history of arrest and prosecution

The new summons continues several years of security pressure on this union activist. According to HRANA, in May–June this year IRGC intelligence agents raided his home, seized his personal belongings and electronic devices, and summoned him to the Langarud intelligence office.

In March–April 2024, Branch 101 of the Langarud Revolutionary Court, following a complaint from IRGC intelligence, also sentenced him to a fine of two million tomans on charges of "propaganda against the system" and "spreading falsehoods" over his posts on Instagram. In February–March 2023 he was also arrested at a gathering in Rudsar in support of Aziz Ghasemzadeh, another teachers' union activist, and released the same day.

Beheshti Langaroudi has previously served terms in various prisons in 2004, 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2021–22 on charges such as "assembly and collusion", "propaganda activity", "insulting officials" and "spreading falsehoods".

Pressure on union activists in the shadow of the war

The summoning of this union activist comes as, during the months of war with the United States, the Islamic Republic has widened the prosecution of civil activists, teachers and protesting workers, including carrying out flogging sentences on protesting Petropars workers in Hoveyzeh.

After five terms in prison, Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi has this time been summoned to the prosecutor's office on a complaint from a law-enforcement body.

Sources

• HRANA