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UPDATE: 10:30 PM CEST
Iran’s Alarming Return to The Darkest Days of Repression
On Monday 21 July 2025, 40 agents from Iran’s intelligence ministry (MOIS) raided the home of Leila Saremi and had her arrested – a stark reminder of the use of collective punishment in Iran. Leila’s father, Ali Saremi, spent 24 years of his life in the prisons of both the Shah and the mullahs before being executed on 28 December 2010 for supporting the Iranian opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and on charges of visiting his son in Ashraf, Iraq.
Leila’s son, Farzad Moazzami, 27, was arrested in April 2023, tortured, interrogated, and even held in a cage before being sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. His younger cousin, Reza Moazami Goudarzi, was killed in the 2019 nationwide uprising, days before his twentieth birthday. Three generations of one family targeted for the same ‘crime’: refusing to bow to tyranny, and family affiliation to the Iranian resistance.
UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST
Iran to Resume Nuclear Talks – But According to a Researcher, With the Wrong Countries
An Iranian delegation and negotiators from France, the UK, and Germany will meet today, Friday, to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.
The talks, taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, mark the first negotiations between these countries since the United States carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June.
Following the strikes, Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (National Coalition Party) stated that Europe must take responsibility in resolving the conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel.
However, the negotiations begin under difficult circumstances, says Tytti Erästö, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Germany, France, and the UK have pressured Iran to return to talks under threat of reimposing strict UN sanctions. These sanctions were lifted under the 2015 nuclear agreement, when Iran agreed to limitations and monitoring of its nuclear program.
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Iran More Than Doubles State Executions in First Half of 2025
Iran more than doubled the number of state executions it has carried out this year compared to data from the first half of 2024, confirmed the United Nations on Monday. The UN Human Rights Office said that at least 612 people have been executed this year alone, a figure more than double the 297 people who were killed during the same time period last year. Minority groups continue to make up a disproportionate number of those being killed by Tehran, confirmed the U.N.
“It is alarming to see the reports that indicate there are at least 48 people currently on death row – 12 of whom are believed to be at imminent risk of execution,” U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said on Monday.
The news of the drastically increased number of state executions comes just one day after Tehran killed Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani on Sunday, both of whom were allegedly involved with the opposition movement known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK).
UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST
Iran’s Regime Escalates War on Political Prisoners in Fear of Uprisings
The Iranian regime is intensifying its war on political prisoners, unleashing a wave of abductions, torture, and executions inside its dungeons. This brutal campaign, carried out under the presidency of Masoud Pezeshkian, is not a demonstration of strength but a calculated strategy born from the regime’s profound fear of a defiant populace and its organized resistance. The escalating terror tactics inside prisons are creating an atmosphere grimly reminiscent of the summer of 1988, signaling to the world that another crime against humanity may be imminent.
A chilling warning has emerged from the heart of the regime’s prison system. In a recent letter from Ghezel Hesar prison, political prisoner Ali Moezi sounded the alarm, asking the terrifying question on the minds of activists: “Is a crime similar to the summer of ’67 (1988) about to happen?”
Bloodshed In Ghezel Hesar: Iran’s Regime Raids Prison to Execute and Exile Resistance Figures
In a premeditated act of terror, the Iranian regime has unleashed a new wave of savage repression inside its dungeons against political prisoners. On the morning of Saturday, July 26, 2025, security forces stormed the political prisoners’ ward in Ghezel Hesar prison in a brutal operation designed to murder, silence, and intimidate. The raid was a calculated military-style assault. Over 100 armed prison guards, accompanied by intelligence agents and acting on the direct orders of prison chief Allah Karam Azizi and his deputies Hassan Ghobadi and Esmail Farajnejad, stormed Unit 4. In a horrifying display of brutality, they shackled the political prisoners with handcuffs and leg irons, pulled bags over their heads, and dragged them across the floor. In the ensuing chaos, prisoners’ meager personal belongings were trampled and destroyed, and a number of inmates were left severely injured.
“How Fiercely We Cling to Life” – A Prison Letter from Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee on the Execution of Two Political Prisoners
On July 27, 2025, the Iranian regime executed two political prisoners—Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani—in silence and without due process, announcing their deaths through a news ticker on state television. From inside the walls of Qarchak Prison, political prisoner and writer Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee penned this powerful and heartbreaking testimony. In it, she captures the collective mourning, defiance, and enduring spirit of resistance shared among incarcerated activists.
Qarchak Prison’s Female Political Prisoners Protest Secret Executions in Iran
On the evening of Sunday, July 27, 2025, a group of female political prisoners in Qarchak Prison in Varamin held a protest ceremony condemning the sudden executions of two political prisoners, Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani, in Ghezel Hesar Prison earlier that day. Both men were executed at dawn without prior notice to their families and in the absence of fair legal procedures.
The memorial event included the singing of resistance songs such as “Blood of the Judas Trees” and chants like “We stand until the death penalty is abolished” and “Death to the dictator”—a slogan that once again echoed from deep within one of Iran’s most notorious prisons.
Atefeh Amini, 35, Executed in Yazd Central Prison
Atefeh Amini had been arrested five years earlier on charges of murdering her husband. Following a judicial process, she was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind), a form of capital punishment under the laws of the clerical regime.
As of this report, no official confirmation or coverage of her execution has been issued by the Iranian regime state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets. With the execution of Atefeh Amini, the number of women executed in Iran in 2025 has risen to 24 in just seven months.
Iran holds the grim record for the highest number of women executed globally. According to data compiled by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at least 287 women have been executed in Iran since 2007.
Global Outcry Grows: Iranian Rally in U.S., Canada and Europe After Execution of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani
July 27, 2025 — Outrage continues to mount after the Iranian regime executed two political prisoners—Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, both members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). As news of the executions spread, Iranian communities and supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) expanded their protests across the globe.
Despite Global Protests on the Eve of Execution, Iranian Regime Executes Political Prisoners
On July 27, 2025, the Iranian regime executed political prisoners Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani—members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)—ignoring widespread international appeals and protests. Just one day earlier, on July 26, freedom-loving Iranians across the globe organized coordinated rallies and exhibitions to try to stop the executions.
The World Remained Silent While the Executioners Led Innocents to the Gallows
While international organizations, human rights defenders, and families of political prisoners had been working for months to prevent political executions, at dawn on Sunday, July 27, 2025, the ruling regime in Iran led to the gallow two political prisoners, Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani, in silence, without notifying their families, without granting them a final visit, and in blatant violation of judicial fairness.
At the same time, special forces, under the command of security officials, raided the political wards of Qezel Hesar Prison. Dozens of prisoners were beaten and transferred to solitary confinement. Saeed Masouri, the longest-held political prisoner in Iran, was suddenly and unlawfully exiled to Zahedan Prison—a transfer that fellow inmates call the beginning of a new “silent massacre.”
Iran’s Economy in Crisis: Investment Collapse and Soaring Inflation
Iran’s economy is trapped in a vortex of structural crises and foreign tensions—a situation that offers no clear path to recovery and instead reveals deeper signs of collapsing economic and social resilience. Official and field data indicate runaway inflation, declining investment, shrinking market activity and business operations, and an increasing inability of households to meet basic needs. The increase in prices of essential goods, especially food, has gone beyond what can be labeled as mere “price hikes”—it has become a full-fledged economic shock. Official data show that from last winter until June 21, prices of items like rice, beans, and lentils have surged by at least 70%.
Retirees Return to the Streets Across Iran Chanting “We Refuse to Live Under Oppression”
On Sunday, July 27, retirees from the Social Security and Education sectors took to the streets once again in various cities across Iran—from Tehran to Rasht, Arak, and Kermanshah—to raise their voices in protest against poverty, corruption, and the injustice of the regime.
On Sunday morning, retired teachers gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in Tehran to express their anger over repeated broken promises by Iran’s regime and the failure to pay their retirement bonuses. One protester shouted, choking back emotion: “If they don’t pay our bonus, I will set myself on fire.” With chants like “Incompetent minister, resign, resign,” the demonstrators condemned the regime’s structural corruption and inefficiency.
The Signature Behind the Executions: How Iran’s Supreme Leader Holds Ultimate Responsibility for Capital Punishment
In the Iranian regime, executions have become a grim and near-daily occurrence, woven so deeply into the country’s political and judicial landscape that the word “Iran” has become almost synonymous with “execution” in the global human rights discourse. The Iranian regime’s record, both domestically and internationally, continues to deteriorate with each new report of state-sanctioned killings, prompting growing outrage and scrutiny from human rights organizations and foreign governments alike.
Yet the reality behind Iran regime’s machinery of death is more complex than a mere accumulation of judicial rulings. Beneath the surface of each execution lies a rigid power structure that leads directly to the office of Iran regime’s Supreme Leader, currently Ali Khamenei — the man who holds the ultimate authority not only in political and religious matters, but also in matters of life and death.