A 140% increase from 2023 and 35% from 2024
13 executed on August 26–27, bringing the total under Pezeshkian to 1,643
On Thursday, August 21, 2025, Khamenei’s henchmen sent five prisoners to the gallows. They included Mehdi Kazemi, 37, Shamsollah Kheiri, 27, and Abdol Sabzi, 34, in Isfahan, as well as Abdolamir Hasangol in Dezful. Another prisoner was executed in public in Kordkuy, which had been mentioned in a previous statement.
Thus, the number of recorded executions in Mordad this year amounted to at least 170 people—an increase of about 140 percent compared to 71 and 72 executions in the same period in 2022 and 2023 (during the last two years of Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency), and a 35 percent increase compared to 126 executions in the same period in 2024.
On Wednesday, August 27, 2025, seven prisoners—namely Ahmad Yousefi, Hosseinali Yousefi, Kazem Fatemi, Hossein Biabani, Ahmadali Mehri, Hesam Mohammadi, and another prisoner—were hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison. On Tuesday, August 26, six prisoners were executed: Ahmad Dahani, 30, from the Baluch community in Zahedan; Navab Popalzai, 28, in Bandar Abbas; Ehsan Khani in Nahavand; Asef Rakhshani, 28, from the Baluch community; Behzad Navaei in Birjand; and a 34-year-old female prisoner named Maliheh Haghi in Tabriz.
On Saturday, August 23, Asad Shabani, 28, was hanged in Neyshabur, and Taher Firoozi, 31, in Gorgan.
The total number of executions since the beginning of Pezeshkian’s presidency in August 2024 has reached 1,643. This unprecedented surge in mass and arbitrary executions demonstrates the regime’s growing fear of an explosion of public anger and its attempt to delay its inevitable downfall.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
27 August 2025