Earlier this year in , Rashidi was reportedly assaulted by Ardabil municipality’s security personnel after he criticized the Municipality football team’s management. Mandana Sadeghi, Kourosh Karam-Pour, and Farzaneh Yahya-Abadi were sentenced by Branch One of the Abadan Revolutionary Court to prison terms in March 2025. Photographer Majid Saeedi wrote that security forces treated journalists as targets during the war:“They didn’t see us as heroes, but as ‘targets.’ We were hunted, and some, like me, were literally hunted. I said I rarely do media work, I don’t write in media, and I won’t write in cyberspace. But within Iran’s media environment and society, no opportunities exist for them, so in the end, they were compelled to migrate.