Widespread Arrests Nationwide; Urgent Call to Save Prisoners on Death Row
According to reports from inside Iran, 140 executions were recorded between May 22 and June 21, 2025. Most took place in Ghezel Hesar, Adel Abad (Shiraz), Birjand, Qom Central, and Dastgerd (Isfahan) prisons. Among the executed were five women. At least 398 executions occurred during the first quarter of the year—March 21 to June 21, 2025—bringing the total under President Pezeshkian to 1,370.
Between June 16 and June 25, six individuals were executed on espionage charges. On Wednesday, June 25, three prisoners—Edris Ali, Azad Shojaei, and Rasoul Ahmad Mohammad—were hanged in Urmia Prison for allegedly spying for Israel. All three, identified as kolbars (border couriers), had been arrested in July 2023 and sentenced to death for allegedly transporting equipment used in the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Earlier executions on similar charges include Mohammadamin Mahdavi Shayesteh in Ghezel Hesar on June 23, Majid Mosayebi in Dastgerd on June 22, and Esmail Fekri in Ghezel Hesar on June 16.
At the same time, mass arrests are ongoing. The IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported the detention of 700 individuals linked to a so-called “spy network,” noting that arrest figures for Tehran Province remain unspecified. The Kermanshah Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office reported 115 arrests—some for espionage, most for alleged anti-regime propaganda. The deputy commander of State Security Force in Fars Province announced 53 arrests for “disturbing public opinion,” and the head of the Cyber Police in Isfahan Province announced the “identification of 60 people who were disturbing public opinion.”
The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the United Nations and relevant international bodies to take urgent action to save the lives of prisoners facing execution.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
25 June 2025