{"id":335185,"date":"2025-08-05T07:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335185"},"modified":"2025-08-05T13:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:18:07","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-august-5-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-august-5-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 August 5, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Oslo, Norway, held a rally on August 2, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h3>\n

UPDATE: 2:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

State-Sanctioned Murder in Iran<\/h3>\n

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In Iran\u2014a land where more than 26 centuries ago the first human rights charter was declared in the Cyrus Cylinder\u2014people today endure a nightmare of persecution, torture, and state-sanctioned killings that cries out to the heavens and demands urgent international action. The theocratic regime ruling the country has turned execution into a daily tool of power and fear. There is no legality, no justice, no guarantees\u2014only repression.<\/p>\n

Reports emerging from Iranian prisons expose a systematized machinery of death. Political prisoner Saeed Masouri, incarcerated for 25 years, recently addressed a letter to the world from Ghezel Hesar Prison. In it, he lays bare how thousands are executed\u2014both literally and symbolically\u2014in Iran: sham trials, no defense, no evidence, no right to appeal. Confessions are extracted through coercion and torture, then broadcast on state television as cautionary examples. Families are emotionally blackmailed into forcing \u201crepentance\u201d statements that never save the prisoner\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

What is called \u201cjustice\u201d is nothing more than a fa\u00e7ade. In cases involving national security\u2014usually political charges\u2014case files are not compiled by judges or prosecutors but by the Revolutionary Guard or the Ministry of Intelligence. There is no due process, no access to legal defense. Execution is the predetermined outcome. Between June and July 2025 alone, over 170 executions were reported. Each one is, in truth, a state murder.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Breaking the stalemate: Why Iran\u2019s future lies beyond the false choice of war or appeasement<\/h3>\n

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For decades, the international community has been paralyzed by a false choice when confronting the clerical regime in Iran: engage in a devastating foreign war or pursue a fruitless policy of appeasement. This stalemate has allowed tyranny to fester, threatening global peace and subjecting the Iranian people to untold suffering. But at the Free Iran World Summit 2025 in Rome, a powerful consensus emerged around a genuine path forward\u2014a \u201cThird Option\u201d that champions regime change led by the Iranian people and their organized Resistance.<\/p>\n

This solution, long the cornerstone of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is now gaining unprecedented international traction. As dignitaries from across the globe gathered in the Italian capital, they affirmed that the only legitimate and lasting solution must come from within Iran. As NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi declared, encapsulating over two decades of the Resistance\u2019s core message: \u201cAppeasement? No! War? No! Is this regime reformable? No! Then what is the solution? The solution is regime change\u2014by the Iranian people and their organized resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Where Is Arghavan Fallahi? Regime Demands 2-Billion-Toman Bail While Family Remains in the Dark<\/h3>\n

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More than six months after the arrest of 24-year-old political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi, her family still has no information about her whereabouts or health condition. Despite this total lack of communication, the Iranian regime\u2019s judiciary has set an exorbitant bail of 2 billion tomans (approximately $40,000 USD) for her temporary release. The demand for such a high bail\u2014while Arghavan is held incommunicado and denied all phone calls or visits\u2014has only deepened the family\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n

Nasrollah Fallahi, Arghavan\u2019s father, is himself a political prisoner currently held in Ward 2 of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafouyeh Prison). On Sunday, August 3, 2025, he released an audio message addressed to the Iranian public and the international community, highlighting the cruel uncertainty and abuse surrounding his daughter\u2019s detention. In it, he describes a desperate, months-long struggle for information and justice.<\/p>\n

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Exhibition in Langenthal, Switzerland Condemned Executions in Iran and Demand Release of Political Prisoners<\/h3>\n
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