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“Sepideh is a wonderful person.
After completing her sentence, she never left Iran, but she was not allowed to return to her work.
They were eating into their savings and could not afford to go to the seaside for her holidays,” Zaghari-Ratcliffe said.
Zaghari-Ratcliffe praised Kashani's resilience during their shared time in the ward, recalling how Kashani supported less fortunate inmates despite her own psychological trauma.
“All we know of them is that they have been allowed to make two phone calls, and we do not know if the arrests are related to the previous case.
I can only hope the two sisters are together,” she said.
The arrests coincide with a broader government crackdown on civil society.
Amnesty International reports that more than 6,000 individuals have been detained since the launch of the US-Israel war on Iran.
Former cellmate Siamak Namazi also criticized the actions of the Iranian government on social media, pointing out the hypocrisy of the state's rhetoric regarding national reconciliation.
He described the original 2018 convictions as a severe miscarriage of justice and emphasized that one of the new detainees is a woman suffering from multiple sclerosis.
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Iranian authorities have not yet published formal charges against Jokar, Kashani, or Sima. Rights organizations state that Iran continues to conduct near-daily prisoner executions in secrecy.
