The variety of executions has reportedly reached a three-decade peak, with 64 executions over the previous week alone.
Iran has executed a minimum of 1,000 folks over the previous 9 months, in keeping with the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group (IHR).
The variety ofexecutions has reportedly reached a three-decade peak, with 64 executions over the previous week alone.
The executions, largely hangings, toppled the earlier determine of 975 state murders in 2024 and the document in 2015.
“TheIslamic Republic has begun a mass killing marketing campaign in Iran’s prisons, the scale of which, within the absence of great worldwide reactions, are increasing day-after-day,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam informed The Telegraph.
Individuals stroll previous a billboard with a caricature of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a road in Tehran, Iran, August 10, 2025. (credit score: Majid Asgaripour/West Asia Information Company/Reuters)
The 12-Day Warfare
The dramatic rise in executions has been related to the 12-Day Warfare with Israel by activists, as Tehran accused waves of people of working with the Jewish state.
“We will certainly deal decisively and legally with spies, nevertheless it needs to be famous that figuring out them isn’t straightforward and requires intelligence methods,” Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’i mentioned.
Specialists have warned that the struggle within the Center East has been utilized by the Islamic regime as a struggle to covertly intensify repression and instill worry in opposition to insurrection.
Amnesty Worldwide and different humanitarian organizations have warned that Iran is the nation finishing up the second largest variety of executions, following behind China.
