- Wave of Executions Continues in Dey (starting December 22) With at Least 8 on December 22, Highlighting Khamenei’s Ruthless Record
In a heinous and brutal crime, Iranian regime authorities hanged 357 prisoners, including eight women, in 64 cities across 31 provinces Since November 22. The provinces of Razavi Khorasan with 38 executions, Lorestan with 28, Khuzestan with 23, and Isfahan with 22 topped the list. Three of these victims were brutally hanged in public. The number of executions in these two months is two-and-a-half times the figure for the same period in 2024 (144 executions), three-and-a-half times that of 2023 (103 executions), and four-and-a-half times that of 2022 (79 executions).
On Sunday, December 21, at least 11 prisoners were hanged: Morad Shoghnai, 27, and Mohammad Babrian, 32, in Taybad; Alimohammad Koushki in Borujerd; Ebrahim Mashayekhi and another prisoner in Tabriz; Amirmohammad Jadidi in Qazvin; Fardin Khani in Arak; Fariborz Ghasemi in Yasuj; Kazem Sourian in Qom; Vahid Pazouki in Semnan; and Reza Sattar in Bandar Abbas.
In the first two days of the Persian month of Dey (December 22-23), another group of prisoners was hanged by the regime’s judiciary. The names of eight of those executed on the first day of Dey (December 22) are: Nariman Mohammadi in Isfahan, Abbas Omidi in Zanjan, Jamshid Nourmohammadi in Kashan, Aidin Nourzad in Gorgan, a prisoner with the surname Moshiri in Kerman, Nourkhoda Moradi in Dorud, Majid Ahmadi in Neyshabur, and Iman Bakhshi in Saveh.
Thus, in the first nine months of the Persian year 1404, at least 1,822 people have been executed. During the presidency of Masoud Pezeshkian, 2,800 people have been executed to date. This level of cruelty and savagery across the country indicates the regime’s growing fear of an eruption of public anger and widespread discontent. Until a few months ago, executions were carried out mainly in provincial capitals or other large cities, but recently, gallows have been set up in most cities.
As long as the mullahs’ regime remains in power, this campaign of killing and execution will continue. However, regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei is futilely trying to prevent an eruption of popular anger. Every execution only increases the public’s hatred for this regime and strengthens the resolve of Iran’s defiant youth to achieve regime change and establish democracy and popular sovereignty.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
23 December 2025
Chart of Executions
