The Islamic Republic of Iran consolidates its state control and authority through the imprisonment of dissidents, transcending incarcerating those convicted of a crime. It asserts power against society by targeting political activists, journalists, minorities, and anyone who contests them or their propaganda. This in addition to legitimizing its authority under its legal system forms the basis of its power as the legislative institutions (through trials, sentencing and imprisonments), play the role of silencing dissidents that would jeopardize its own existence and discourses. Islamic Republic of Iran is constantly denying the existence of any political prisoners alongside giving political captives vague charges like: “Baghi” (armed enmity against the state), “Muḥāribah” (enmity against state/god), “Afsad-i fil Arz” (perpetuating corruption on the earth), and two massively given vague charges of “spreading propaganda against the system” and “endangering national security” which all point to the state concern of losing sovereignty. The Iranian state perpetuates numerous executions, giving heavy charges to prisoners, and setting up inconspicuous trials to show the state’s own sovereignty. This concern increases especially during the post-societal movements. One of the greatest concerns of the state is anything that can endanger its sovereignty and power, and it will demonstrate its own power through its institutions. Moreover, the Islamic Republic of Iran is keen on an iron fist as they perpetuate negative punishments and make the charges heavier as time passes, increasing more as collective movements threaten their power. This trend bares out from the increased rates of imprisonment, raising bail costs, increasing charges for captured dissidents and prolonging years of imprisonment. This research alongside the memoirs of the I.R.’s prisoners, is using works like Women and the Islamic Republic: How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State (2022), Abolition. Feminism. Now (2022), The End Times of Human Rights (2013), Dancing the Carceral Creep: The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement and the Paradoxical Pursuit of Criminalization, 1973 – 1986 (2015), Anti-Carceral Feminism: The Contradictions of Progress and the Possibilities of Counter-Hegemonic Struggle (2020), All of Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (2019), When Victims Become Killers (2001), in addition to many more. My goal in writing this is to show the pattern of the Islamic Republic of Iran maintaining its sovereignty through imprisonment and patterns of creating harsher charges that both act as a message to anyone who would contest its own power.