{"id":334867,"date":"2025-07-29T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=334867"},"modified":"2025-07-29T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:56:19","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-july-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-july-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 July 29, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Global outcry grows: Iranian rally in U.S., Canada and Europe after the execution of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani\u2014 July 28, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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UPDATE: 10:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Alarming Return to The Darkest Days of Repression<\/h3>\n

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On Monday 21 July 2025, 40 agents from Iran\u2019s intelligence ministry (MOIS)\u00a0raided the home of Leila Saremi and had her arrested<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a stark reminder of the use of collective punishment in Iran. Leila\u2019s father, Ali Saremi, spent 24 years of his life in the prisons of both the Shah and the mullahs before being executed on 28 December 2010 for supporting the Iranian opposition, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK), and on charges of visiting his son in Ashraf, Iraq.<\/p>\n

Leila\u2019s son, Farzad Moazzami, 27, was arrested in April 2023, tortured, interrogated, and even held in a cage before being sentenced to five years\u2019 imprisonment. His younger cousin, Reza Moazami Goudarzi, was killed in the 2019 nationwide uprising, days before his twentieth birthday. Three generations of one family targeted for the same \u2018crime\u2019: refusing to bow to tyranny, and family affiliation to the Iranian resistance.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 5:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran to Resume Nuclear Talks \u2013 But According to a Researcher, With the Wrong Countries<\/h3>\n

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An Iranian delegation and negotiators from France, the UK, and Germany will meet today, Friday, to discuss Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n

The talks, taking place in Istanbul, Turkey, mark the first negotiations between these countries since the United States carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites in June.<\/p>\n

Following the strikes, Finland\u2019s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen (National Coalition Party) stated that Europe must take responsibility in resolving the conflict between Iran, the United States, and Israel.<\/p>\n

However, the negotiations begin under difficult circumstances, says Tytti Er\u00e4st\u00f6, a researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).<\/p>\n

Germany, France, and the UK have pressured Iran to return to talks under threat of reimposing strict UN sanctions. These sanctions were lifted under the 2015 nuclear agreement, when Iran agreed to limitations and monitoring of its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

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

Iran More Than Doubles State Executions in First Half of 2025<\/h3>\n

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Iran<\/a>\u00a0more than doubled the number of state executions it has carried out this year compared to data from the first half of 2024, confirmed the United Nations on Monday.\u00a0The\u00a0UN Human Rights Office<\/a>\u00a0said that at least 612 people have been executed this year alone, a figure more than double the 297 people who were killed during the same time period last year.\u00a0Minority groups<\/a>\u00a0continue to make up a disproportionate number of those being killed by Tehran, confirmed the U.N.<\/p>\n

“It is alarming to see the reports that indicate there are at least 48 people currently on death row \u2013 12 of whom are believed to be at imminent risk of execution,” U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker T\u00fcrk said on Monday.<\/p>\n

The news of the drastically increased number of state executions comes just one day after Tehran killed Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani on Sunday, both of whom were allegedly involved with the opposition movement known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK).<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Regime Escalates War on Political Prisoners in Fear of Uprisings<\/h3>\n

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The Iranian regime is intensifying its war on political prisoners, unleashing a wave of abductions, torture, and executions inside its dungeons. This brutal campaign, carried out under the presidency of Masoud Pezeshkian, is not a demonstration of strength but a calculated strategy born from the regime\u2019s profound fear of a defiant populace and its organized resistance. The escalating terror tactics inside prisons are creating an atmosphere grimly reminiscent of the summer of 1988, signaling to the world that another crime against humanity may be imminent.<\/p>\n

A chilling warning has emerged from the heart of the regime\u2019s prison system. In a recent letter from Ghezel Hesar prison, political prisoner Ali Moezi sounded the alarm, asking the terrifying question on the minds of activists: \u201cIs a crime similar to the summer of \u201967 (1988) about to happen?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bloodshed In Ghezel Hesar: Iran\u2019s Regime Raids Prison to Execute and Exile Resistance Figures<\/h3>\n

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In a premeditated act of terror, the Iranian regime has unleashed a new wave of savage repression inside its dungeons against political prisoners. On the morning of Saturday, July 26, 2025, security forces stormed the political prisoners\u2019 ward in Ghezel Hesar prison in a brutal operation designed to murder, silence, and intimidate.\u00a0The raid was a calculated military-style assault. Over 100 armed prison guards, accompanied by intelligence agents and acting on the direct orders of prison chief Allah Karam Azizi and his deputies Hassan Ghobadi and Esmail Farajnejad, stormed Unit 4. In a horrifying display of brutality, they shackled the political prisoners with handcuffs and leg irons, pulled bags over their heads, and dragged them across the floor. In the ensuing chaos, prisoners\u2019 meager personal belongings were trampled and destroyed, and a number of inmates were left severely injured.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow Fiercely We Cling to Life\u201d \u2013 A Prison Letter from Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee on the Execution of Two Political Prisoners<\/h3>\n

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On July 27, 2025, the Iranian regime executed two political prisoners\u2014Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani\u2014in silence and without due process, announcing their deaths through a news ticker on state television. From inside the walls of Qarchak Prison, political prisoner and writer Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee penned this powerful and heartbreaking testimony. In it, she captures the collective mourning, defiance, and enduring spirit of resistance shared among incarcerated activists.<\/p>\n

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Qarchak Prison\u2019s Female Political Prisoners Protest Secret Executions in Iran<\/h3>\n

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On the evening of Sunday, July 27, 2025, a group of female political prisoners in Qarchak Prison in Varamin held a protest ceremony condemning the sudden executions of two political prisoners, Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani, in Ghezel Hesar Prison earlier that day. Both men were executed at dawn without prior notice to their families and in the absence of fair legal procedures.<\/p>\n

The memorial event included the singing of resistance songs such as \u201cBlood of the Judas Trees\u201d and chants like \u201cWe stand until the death penalty is abolished\u201d and \u201cDeath to the dictator\u201d\u2014a slogan that once again echoed from deep within one of Iran\u2019s most notorious prisons.<\/p>\n

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Atefeh Amini, 35, Executed in Yazd Central Prison<\/h3>\n

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Atefeh Amini had been arrested five years earlier on charges of murdering her husband. Following a judicial process, she was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind), a form of capital punishment under the laws of the clerical regime.<\/p>\n

As of this report, no official confirmation or coverage of her execution has been issued by the Iranian regime state media or judiciary-affiliated outlets. With the execution of Atefeh Amini, the number of women executed in Iran in 2025 has risen to 24 in just seven months.<\/p>\n

Iran holds the grim record for the highest number of women executed globally. According to\u00a0data compiled<\/a>\u00a0by the Women\u2019s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at least 287 women have been executed in Iran since 2007.<\/p>\n

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Global Outcry Grows: Iranian Rally in U.S., Canada and Europe After Execution of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani<\/h3>\n
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