IRAN HAS EXECUTED AT LEAST 1,000 PEOPLE IN 2025 – NGO
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Iran has executed a minimum of 1,000 individuals so far in 2025, according to a non-governmental organization (NGO) that criticized a “mass execution campaign” within the prisons of the Islamic Republic.
At least 64 executions occurred in the past week alone, averaging more than nine hangings each day, as reported by the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization, which monitors and verifies executions in Iran on a daily basis.
With over three months remaining in 2025, this figure is already the highest since IHR began documenting such instances in 2008, exceeding the 975 executions recorded the previous year.
Iran conducted a wave of executions during the 1980s and early 1990s in the wake of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war.
However, activists contend that the Islamic Republic is currently applying capital punishment more rigorously than at any period in the last thirty years, with the clerical regime under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei facing challenges from the protests of 2022-2023 and the 12-day conflict with Israel in June.
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“In recent months the Islamic republic has begun a mass killing campaign in Iran’s prisons, the dimensions of which — in the absence of serious international reactions — are expanding every day,” stated IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to potentially engage with Western leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York next week.
Iran’s nuclear program is likely to dominate the agenda following the UN Security Council’s decision to reinstate sanctions.
Nevertheless, Amiry-Moghaddam asserted that the executions constitute “amount to crimes against humanity and must be placed at the top of the international community’s agenda”
“Any dialogue between countries committed to the foundations of human rights and the Islamic republic that does not include the execution crisis in Iran is unacceptable.”
IHR emphasized that its execution figures represent “an absolute minimum,” with the actual number likely being higher “due to the lack of transparency and restrictions on reporting”
Currently, executions in Iran are conducted exclusively by hanging, although other methods have been employed in the past.
Most executions occur within prison settings, although there are occasional public hangings.
According to human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, Iran ranks as the world’s second most active executioner after China, which is believed to execute thousands annually, although exact figures remain unavailable.
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