Iran regime uses war to mask 'brutal' execution surge against political opponents

The Islamic Republic of Iran is connected way to transcend the grounds fig of executions it carried retired against opponents successful 2025, with 657 executions successful the archetypal 3 months of the year, according to the Iran Human Rights Society.  

Hiding down the warfare with the U.S. and Israel, critics accidental the authorities appears hopeless to destruct opposition, peculiarly pursuing anti-regime demonstrations that shook the nation's rulers and resulted successful tens of thousands being murdered by the country's information forces and militias.

In March, the authorities was met with condemnations, including from President Donald Trump, implicit the execution of 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi.

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A protester holds 'Stop executions successful Iran' and 'Free Iran' placards during the demonstration. Demonstrators gathered extracurricular Downing Street successful protestation against executions successful Iran and successful enactment of state for Iran.  (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

On Iran's latest sidesplitting spree, a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, "This latest barbaric enactment is much evidence of why the regime can ne'er beryllium allowed the advanced capabilities that we are destroying."

The United Nations Special Rapporteur connected the concern of quality rights successful the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mai Sato, said that since the commencement of the warfare astatine slightest six executions took spot arsenic of March 30, and noted connected her X relationship that an further 2 executions took spot connected March 31.

Sato described the regime’s known victims arsenic protesters, an accused spy for Israel, and individuals charged with "armed rebellion" against the regime. Sato said that "due to the net blackout, it is unclear who other has been executed oregon are astatine hazard of execution." She said, "What is wide is that the decease punishment is being utilized arsenic a instrumentality for suppressing governmental absorption successful wartime conditions."

Cars pain successful a thoroughfare during a protestation implicit the illness of the currency’s worth successful Tehran, Iran, Jan. 8, 2026. (Stringer/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS)

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The Secretariat of the NCRI provided a written connection to Fox News Digital describing the caller executions of 4 members of the Iranian dissident enactment People’s Mohahedin Organization of Iran (PMOE/MEK). The NCRI said members Mohammad Taghavi and Akbar Daneshvarkar were transferred from Ghezel Hesar situation connected March 29, and executed the pursuing morning. Four further members of the group, Babak Alipour, Vahid Bani Amerian, Abolhassan Montazer and Pouya Ghobadi, were transferred arsenic well. On March 31, the authorities executed Alipour and Ghobadi.

Ali Safavi, a subordinate of the NCRI’s Foreign Affairs Committee, called for "urgent action" to prevention the lives of Amerian and Montazer.

Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the NCRI, posted connected X that the execution conducted connected March 31 "reflects the clerical regime’s fearfulness and desperation." She called connected the United Nations and its subordinate states to prosecute successful "practical and effectual measures, including the closure of embassies and the expulsion of the regime’s violent diplomats and agents."

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Before the Islamic Republic killed thousands of its ain radical during January protests, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that the Islamic Republic carried retired "at least" 1,500 executions successful 2025. According to the High Commissioner, "the standard and gait of executions suggest a systematic usage of superior punishment arsenic a instrumentality of State intimidation, with disproportionate interaction connected taste minorities and migrants."

Amnesty International has raised akin concerns, and additionally noted that 5 "young protesters" present "face the imminent hazard of execution," having been transferred from Ghezal Hesar "to an unidentified location" arsenic of March 31.