{"id":334820,"date":"2025-07-28T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=334820"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:40:21","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-july-28-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-july-28-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 July 28, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global protests condemn the execution of PMOI-affiliated political prisoners Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani in Iran\u2014 July 27, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran, FdI: Alarming Level of Executions in the Country<\/h3>\n

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(AGENPARL) \u2013 Mon 28 July 2025 \u2013 \u201cThe atrocities committed by the regime are steadily increasing and demand a clear response from the international community\u2014especially in the face of Tehran\u2019s completely arbitrary use of the death penalty. The numbers continue to rise, painting an already grim picture: 975 executions in 2024 and nearly 600 so far in 2025. The recent news of the hanging of two members of the political opposition movement MEK\/PMOI confirms a defining trait of the Islamic Republic since its founding in 1979\u2014using the death penalty to crush all forms of dissent. The darkest chapter of this pattern occurred in 1988, when at least 30,000 MEK\/PMOI members were executed in just one month.<\/p>\n

As members of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee for a Free Iran<\/strong>\u2014which brings together Senators and Deputies from nearly all political parties in the Italian Parliament\u2014we firmly condemn the executions of Behrouz Ehsani (69)<\/strong> and Mehdi Hassani (48)<\/strong>, carried out on July 27 at Ghezel Hesar Prison, after more than three years of imprisonment and various forms of torture.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Iran: Horrifying Secret Executions Amid Mounting Political Repression<\/h3>\n

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Responding to the arbitrary executions of tortured political dissidents, Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, in secret in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz province, on 27 July, Kristine Beckerle, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa at\u202fAmnesty\u202fInternational, said: \u201cBehrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani were executed arbitrarily amid Iran\u2019s horrific execution crisis, which has resulted in nearly 700 people hanged this year. They were executed in secret without notice to them or their families after a\u00a0grossly unfair trial<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0by a Revolutionary Court. They were denied access to their lawyers for nearly two years before a trial that lasted only five minutes and during which they were not allowed to speak in their own defense. Forced \u2018confessions\u2019 extracted through beatings, prolonged solitary confinement and threats to further harm them and their families were used as evidence to convict them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 6:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

International Community Must Act to Prevent a Repeat of Iran\u2019s 1988 Massacre<\/h3>\n

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We call on the global community to urgently confront the escalating wave of political executions and entrenched impunity in Iran. The risk of another mass atrocity, reminiscent of the 1988 massacre, is alarmingly real.\u00a0On 7 July 2025, Fars News\u2014linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)\u2014published an editorial praising the 1988 executions of over 30,000 political prisoners as a \u2018successful historical experience\u2019. The editorial, entitled\u00a0\u2018Why the 1988 Executions Should Be Repeated\u2019<\/em>, openly advocated for similar measures against current detainees, framing political dissent as a threat to national security. This rhetoric reflects a dangerous effort to normalise state-sponsored killings.<\/p>\n

On 12 July 2025, three opposition activists\u2014Farshad Etemadi-Far, Masoud Jamei, and Alireza Mardasi\u2014were sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court after two years of torture, accused of \u2018waging war on God\u2019 (moharebeh) over their support for the opposition PMOI (MEK). In July 2025, the Supreme Court rejected a fourth request for judicial review for political prisoners Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, leaving them at imminent risk on death row. There are currently dozens of political prisoners on death row on similar charges.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 3:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Planning to Execute 30,000 In Repeat of Horror 1988 \u2018Massacre\u2019 as Part of Desperate Crackdown, Insiders Fear<\/h3>\n

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IRAN’S merciless regime is plotting to kill tens of thousands of prisoners in a repeat of the 1988 massacre, insiders fear.<\/p>\n

Rattled supreme leader Ali Khamenei has ordered a surge in executions – turning hangings into public spectacles in a chilling warning to dissidents. It comes as callous mullahs yesterday hanged two political prisoners who had been jailed on trumped-up charges. Mehdi Hassani, 48, and Behrouz Ehsani, 70, were killed in cold blood for daring to oppose the barbaric regime they were forced to live under.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, The Sun shared a\u00a0haunting voice message from dad-of-three Hassani<\/a>\u00a0as he lambasted the cruelty of mullahs.<\/p>\n

Ehsani meanwhile bravely\u00a0vowed he was “ready” to sacrifice his life<\/a>\u00a0in the ongoing fight for freedom for the Iranian people.<\/p>\n

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West Urged to Step in Over ‘Awful Tyrannical’ Iran as Two Dissidents Executed<\/h3>\n

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Olympian Sharron Davies today warned the West had to stop mollifying Iran\u2019s murderous mullahs as two more dissidents opposed to the Ayatollah were hanged at dawn. Davies has been a passionate advocate of democracy in Iran since 1988 when the Ayatollah Khomeini ordered a mass slaughter of 30,000 Iranians, many of them popular sportsmen and women, who had taken a stand against his fascist theocracy.<\/p>\n

They did not and yesterday political prisoners Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani were hanged at first light in Qezelhessar Prison. They were charged with the medieval \u201cmoharebeh\u201d (waging war against God), \u201ccorruption on earth\u201d, together with \u201cbaghi\u201d (armed rebellion), membership of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), collecting classified information, and conspiring against national security.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 11:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Next Iranian Revolution Will Be Led by Women<\/h3>\n

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Modern Iran\u00a0has endured two enduring strains<\/a>\u00a0of dictatorship. The first, a monarchy under the Shah, ended on February 11, 1979, when a massive popular uprising overthrew Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Yet, the hope for freedom that fueled that revolution was swiftly betrayed. Progressive and freedom-seeking forces\u2014many of them previously imprisoned by the Shah\u2019s notorious secret police, SAVAK\u2014were crushed once again, this time under the weight of a rising theocracy. Ayatollah Khomeini, cloaked in revolutionary legitimacy, seized power and established a new order built on two foundations: ruthless domestic repression and the export of fundamentalism and terror.<\/p>\n

Central to the resistance against both these regimes has been the unflinching resolve of Iranian women. Their leadership is not incidental\u2014it is rooted in decades of political engagement that predate the revolution. Even under the Shah, countless women were harassed, imprisoned, and in some cases executed for their dissent. This spirit of resistance only deepened under the clerical regime, where misogyny became not just policy but ideology\u2014an essential tool for maintaining control.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Protests Weekly: Nationwide Anger Boils over Water Shortages, Corruption, and Injustice<\/h3>\n

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