On Sunday, August 3, 2025, security staff at Baharloo Hospital in Tehran contacted
Police Emergency Center 110 to report a “suspicious death” in the hospital’s emergency
ward. The cause of death for the young woman, whose identity has not been disclosed,
was reported as aluminum phosphide (“rice pill”) poisoning. Before her death, she had
revealed her husband’s role in forcing her to take the lethal substance.
The young woman told hospital staff that her husband had coerced her into swallowing
the deadly rice pill, a statement that domestic media outlets, including Rokna, referred
to as merely her “claim,” framing it in a way that casts doubt on the victim’s own
identification of her killer.
The full details of the crime remain unclear. The husband has claimed that the two of
them had jointly decided to ingest the rice pill and, after being poisoned, went to the
hospital, where his wife later died. This is a scenario frequently seen in cases of
women’s killings in Iran, where male family members, after murdering women, present it
as a suicide to evade punishment.
However, police investigations have shown that the amount of toxic chemicals in the
suspect’s body was significantly lower, increasing the likelihood that this was, in fact, a
killing.

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