On Sunday, August 3, 2025, security staff at Baharloo Hospital in Tehran contacted
Police Emergency Center 110 to report a \u201csuspicious death\u201d in the hospital\u2019s emergency
ward. The cause of death for the young woman, whose identity has not been disclosed,
was reported as aluminum phosphide (\u201crice pill\u201d) poisoning. Before her death, she had
revealed her husband\u2019s 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 \u201cclaim,\u201d framing it in a way that casts doubt on the victim\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s body was significantly lower, increasing the likelihood that this was, in fact, a
killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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