Iran — Nasrin Teymouri Leads the Country’s Only All-Women Stunt Crew, Taking the Fire Burns and Car Ejections Herself

• Nasrin Teymouri leads Iran’s only all-women stunt crew, the Stunt Powerful team.
• The crew performs fire burns, high falls, stair falls and car ejections for Iranian productions.
• Teymouri says directors once refused to hire women, so men in wigs doubled the actresses.

Posted: October 9, 2026

An AFP report published October 9 covers Nasrin Teymouri, who in her thirties runs Stunt Powerful, the only all-women stunt crew working in Iran, and who also trains male stunt performers. The line in it that will land hardest with doubles anywhere is the one about what the job used to look like: directors refused to hire women for stunt work, so men were dressed in women’s clothing and put in frame to double actresses. Teymouri says that changed slowly, and in her phrasing it changed because the work held up — “they placed their trust in us.”

The craft on the page is the standard dangerous end of the trade rather than anything exotic. Teymouri is described performing with her body alight. Mahisa Babayi-Parsa, who is nine and came to the crew after watching Teymouri, lists having been set on fire twice, jumped from height, tumbled down stairs and been ejected from a car. Mojgan Nematollahi is pictured in a Tehran training session. The fire work is rehearsed with the usual two-item safety bench — a colleague on the extinguisher, a colleague on the wet blanket — which is about as thin as a burn setup gets.

The infrastructure detail is worth noting for anyone who has tried to build a training base without a studio behind them. The crew rehearses a few times a month at Navid Park, an extreme-sports skatepark in Tehran that opened a year ago and is named after its founder. That is where the foam pit is, and the foam pit is where the backward flips get worked before anyone takes them anywhere else. A borrowed skatepark doing the job of a stunt gym is a familiar arrangement; so is the fact that Teymouri earns her living teaching gymnastics rather than from the stunt work itself.

Source: The Witness (AFP) — Iranian stuntwomen breaking gender norms with daring feats

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