Iranian protester shared heartbreaking final call with sobbing father before he was executed: ‘Don’t cry, dad’

A 21-year-old Iranian protester shared a final, heartbreaking call with his father who could do nothing but sob as the regime carried him off to the gallows moments later. Alireza Raisi’s last call with his father from inside an Isfahan prison revealed the family’s desperation moments before he was hung to death for taking part in the January protests against the regime, according to a recording of the conversation. “Forgive me! Forgive me,” Raisi’s father could be