On the first day of 2025 alone, 21 executions took place, with at least 725 executions during the presidency of Masoud Pezeshkian.
Ali Khamenei, mired in domestic and international crises and gripped by fear of a popular uprising, has accelerated the machinery of execution and death to unprecedented levels. The number of recorded executions in 2024 reached 1,001. On the first day of the new year, an additional 21 prisoners were hanged.
Among these, 10 executions, including Mohammad-Hossein Mohammadi-Far, Ammar Ahmadi, Saeed Kishi, Ali and Hassan Vahdani, Shahram Mahdavi, and three individuals with the first names Pasha, Amin, and Arshia, along with one other prisoner, took place in Qezelhessar Prison. On the same day, Mohammad Shafi Mousavi was executed in Malayer; Shahrokh Sabahpour, Ramzi Beig Savar, Heydat Qasemi, and two others in Bandar Abbas; Pejman Masoudi in Yasuj; Ali Moradi in Sepidar Prison, Ahvaz; Behrouz Mehrani in Gorgan; and Meysam Farhadi and Reza Bakhtiari in Dizelabad Prison, Kermanshah.
The brutal executions continued in the following days, with reports of 10 additional executions between January 2 and January 6. On Monday, January 6, Ali Sa’di was executed in Ahvaz. On January 5, Khalil Alizahi, Mohammad-Reza Hossein Zadeh, Amir Mohammad Farahani, and Sajjad Arzandeh were executed in Adelabad Prison, Shiraz. On January 4, Valiollah Kamalpour was executed in Semnan and Abolfazl Azadi in Hamedan. On January 2, Mostafa Shakeri and Khosrow Khodadadi were executed in Zanjan.
Thus, 31 prisoners have been executed since the start of January, and at least 725 have been executed since Pezeshkian assumed office.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
6 January 2025
