The variety of executions has reportedly reached a three-decade peak, with 64 executions over the previous week alone.
Iran has executed at the least 1,000 folks over the previous 9 months, in accordance with the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group (IHR).
The quantity 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 file in 2015.
“TheIslamic Republic has begun a mass killing marketing campaign in Iran’s prisons, the size of which, within the absence of great worldwide reactions, are increasing on daily basis,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam advised The Telegraph.
Folks stroll previous a billboard with a caricature of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on a avenue in Tehran, Iran, August 10, 2025. (credit score: Majid Asgaripour/West Asia Information Company/Reuters)
The 12-Day Battle
The dramatic rise in executions has been related to the 12-Day Battle 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 just isn’t simple and requires intelligence methods,” Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje’i stated.
Specialists have warned that the conflict within the Center East has been utilized by the Islamic regime as a conflict 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.
