According to information received by Avatoday, on the evening of Wednesday, 3 December 2025 , two women in Tehran and Shahroud were killed by their own sons in separate stabbing attacks.
These murders reflect a deeper pattern rooted in a combination of social repression, misogynistic laws, and a culture of state-fueled violence.
In Tehran, a young man locked the room from the inside and murdered his mother with 86 stab wounds. State-affiliated media described the motive as “honor-related issues.”
At the same time, in a village near Shahroud, a 58-year-old woman was killed by her 28-year-old son, while the woman’s brother—who tried to intervene—was severely injured.
The killer was arrested at the scene, yet state media once again reduced the incident to a simple case of “family dispute.”
Authorities routinely attempt to present such crimes as “domestic problems” or “honor issues,” but the reality is that violence against women in Iran is structural, state-driven, and systematic.
As long as an Islamic authoritarian regime and its extremist ideology dominate the country, femicide will not be an exception but a natural outcome of a system that defines women as second-class citizens.
