With at Least 27 Executions Between September 14 and 16, the Number of Executions since March 21, 2025, Surpasses 800
· Babak Shahbazi was executed this morning, on charges of “intelligence, espionage, and security collaboration” with Israel. Three others were also executed
The clerical regime’s judiciary announced today that on the morning of Wednesday, September 17, Babak Shahbazi, 44, was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison on charges of “intelligence, espionage, and security collaboration” with Israel, according to Mizan News Agency, affiliated with the regime’s judiciary. Shahbazi, imprisoned since January 2024, was condemned to death by the notorious executioner-judge Abolqasem Salavati.
In addition, according to reports received by 2 p.m. today, at least three other prisoners, Ali Esmaeili, Rahman Sarlak, and Hamid Hosseini, were hanged this morning in Ghezel Hesar Prison.
On Tuesday, September 16, five more prisoners were hanged: Masoud Okhtizadeh and Akbar Emami in Qezel Hesar, Abdolsamad Salarzehi and Abdolmajid Barahouei in Birjand, and 27-year-old Parviz Yousefzehi in Gonabad.
On Monday, September 15, six prisoners were executed: Khalil Rashedi in Ramhormoz and one prisoner in Jiroft, while the names of four others were reported in a previous statement.
On Sunday, September 14, sixteen prisoners were executed, including 27-year-old Elias Shirouzehi, a Baluch citizen, in Zahedan; 30-year-old Reza Shahsavari and Heydar Ali Babaei in Shiraz; Reza Sarani, another Baloch, in Kashmar; Sajjad M. in Mashhad; and Ahmad Haqqi in Ilam. The names of ten other prisoners were listed in an earlier statement.
With the execution of at least 27 prisoners between Sunday and Tuesday, September 14–16, the total number of brutal executions in less than six months—since the March 21, 2025 (the beginning of the Iranian year)—has surpassed 800, an unprecedented figure in the past 35 years.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, declared that Khamenei, gripped by fear of the people’s rising anger, is desperate to extend the disgraceful rule of his regime. Every day more families are left grieving, more children are orphaned, and more households lose their loved ones. Yet, this blood-stained regime cannot last. The clerical rulers’ decaying power will fall to the courage of Iran’s rising generation, and be replaced by human rights, justice, and a democratic republic. On that day, Ali Khamenei and those responsible will face justice.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
17 September 2025