Urgent Call to Save Lives of Death Row Prisoners
Ali Khamenei, the beleaguered Supreme Leader of the clerical regime, besieged by internal and external crises and fearful of an eruption of public outrage, has resorted to mass arrests of youth and a renewed wave of executions. In acts of extreme cruelty, his executioners hanged one prisoner in public this morning, July 12, in Bukan, and another on July 9 in Miandoab.
On July 9, six other prisoners were executed: Naser Kazemzadeh (26 years old) and Mohammad-Tayyeb Abdollahi in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz; Ahmad-Ali Mehdinejad in Nahavand Prison; and Saeed Mehrabi, Abdolhossein Jaberi, and Amin Shokri-Pour in Karaj Central Prison. On July 10, Jafar Khoshkalam was hanged in Lakan Prison in Rasht.
On Tuesday, July 8, four prisoners—Mehran Habibi (34), Alireza Bagheri (40), and Esmail Valipour in Zanjan Central Prison, and Majid Rahmani (35) in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz—were executed. On Monday, July 7, three prisoners—Amin Khosravi (38) and Saeed Asadzadeh in Tabriz Central Prison, and Javad Yarbigy in Arak Central Prison—were hanged.
On Wednesday, July 2, Jabbar Pourmohammadi Maghani was executed in Zanjan Central Prison. On Tuesday, July 1, Hossein-Ali Abedi (25) was executed in Ahar. On Monday, June 30, three prisoners—Ahmadreza Didehban and Mozaffar Najari in Shiraz Central Prison, and one prisoner in Taybad—were hanged. On Saturday, June 28, Babak Mostafavi (27) was executed in Neyshabur.
On Wednesday, June 25, nine prisoners were hanged, including Masoud Jafari (27), Ghorban Zeinolnouri, and Mahan Mahini in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, and Ahmad, Pasha, and another unnamed prisoner in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad. The names of the three other prisoners were mentioned in a previous statement.
On Tuesday, June 24, six prisoners, including a woman named Tal’at Sabzi, Hadi Nasri (26), Fereydoun Naziri (36), Hassan Rostam-Nejad, and Azim Mohammadi in Qom Central Prison, and Habib Soleimani in Arak Prison, were executed.
On Sunday, June 22, Heydat Menshari (29) was executed in Ardabil Prison.
Additionally, reports indicate that three Arab compatriots sentenced to death—Moein Khanfari, Ali Mojaddam, and Mohammadreza Moghaddam—have been transferred to solitary confinement in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz in preparation for execution.
The Iranian Resistance once again calls on the United Nations and relevant international bodies to take urgent action to save the lives of those on death row. It also urges the dispatch of an international fact-finding mission to Iran’s prisons and for this delegation to meet with prisoners, especially those sentenced to death.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
12 July 2025