Twin sisters face death sentence and 25-year term for Iran protest participation

In the early weeks of 2026, two teenage sisters in Isfahan joined millions of Iranians in the streets, and within months found themselves swallowed by a system that transforms ordinary presence into capital crime. Taraneh and Romina Rahimi, 19-year-old twins with no history of protest, were taken from their beds by masked agents, tortured into confession, and sentenced — one to death, one to a quarter century of imprisonment — not because the law demanded it, but because fear, it seems, was the intended verdict all along. Their case is not an aberration in Iran's 2026 judicial landscape but a