{"id":335307,"date":"2025-08-07T19:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=335307"},"modified":"2025-08-07T19:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T18:51:07","slug":"global-outcry-mounts-over-irans-political-executions-lawmakers-and-rights-groups-warn-of-a-new-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/global-outcry-mounts-over-irans-political-executions-lawmakers-and-rights-groups-warn-of-a-new-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Outcry Mounts Over Iran’s Political Executions, Lawmakers and Rights Groups Warn of a New Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At a memorial rally in Rome on July 30, 2025, Maryam Rajavi lays flowers before portraits of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The recent executions of two political prisoners, Behrouz Ehsani, 70, and Mehdi Hassani, 49<\/a>, have triggered an immediate and unified wave of international condemnation. The two men, both members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>, were executed on July 27, 2025, in what lawmakers and human rights organizations are calling a grave escalation in the regime\u2019s war on dissent. The response from world capitals suggests a growing consensus that these executions are not isolated events but a chilling prelude to a wider campaign of political extermination.<\/p>\n

A Chorus of Condemnation from World Parliaments<\/h2>\n

In a striking display of international solidarity, parliamentarians from Europe to South America have forcefully denounced the killings. The European Parliament\u2019s Friends of a Free Iran group expressed shock in a statement addressed to the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, pointing out that the parliament had passed a resolution in April 2025 specifically calling for a halt to their death sentences. The group noted that the regime’s current actions are reminiscent of “the darkest memories of the 1988 massacre<\/a>” and highlighted a July 7 Fars News article that openly questioned, “Why should the 1988 executions be repeated?”<\/p>\n

Across the channel, the British Committee for Iran Freedom, comprised of MPs and Lords, called for immediate international intervention to prevent another massacre. They directly linked the timing of the executions to the anniversary of the 1988 mass killing of 30,000 political prisoners, the majority of whom were PMOI members.<\/p>\n

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On July 27, 2025 my Co-Chair and I wrote to the Minister of Foreign Affairs about Iran\u2019s executions of political prisoners. The executions of Mehdi Hassani and Behrouz Ehsani is a grave violation of human rights and justice. We must strongly condemn this bruatlity. pic.twitter.com\/DI08BR6adu<\/a><\/p>\n

— Judy Sgro (@honjudysgro) August 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n