{"id":336171,"date":"2025-08-29T16:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=336171"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:30:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:30:47","slug":"executions-in-iran-a-tool-of-power-and-psychological-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/stop-executions-in-iran\/executions-in-iran-a-tool-of-power-and-psychological-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Executions in Iran &#8211; A Tool of Power and Psychological Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333651\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75.jpg\" alt=\"No to Execution Tuesdays Campaign Marks Week 75\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-to-Execution-Tuesdays-Campaign-Marks-Week-75-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Three-minute read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Newly released figures once again confirm that executions in Iran are not about justice, but about the regime\u2019s survival through fear and violence. According to state-run <a href=\"https:\/\/hammihanonline.ir\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B9%D9%87-23\/47564-%D9%86%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D9%87%D8%B4%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%BE%D8%B2%D8%B4%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87-%D8%A7%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%AD%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%85\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Ham-Mihan<\/em> daily, published<\/a> on August 27, 2025, at least 975 people were executed in Iran in 2024. This represents the highest number in 17 years\u2014even according to the regime\u2019s own diluted figures\u2014and a 17% increase compared to the previous year. The report noted that \u201c31 women were executed, and four executions were carried out in public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public hangings are deliberately staged spectacles. By forcing citizens\u2014including children\u2014to witness such violence, the regime aims to remind society that power rests only in its hands. In one case documented by <em>Ham-Mihan<\/em>, \u201can execution in Isfahan was held near an elementary school in the afternoon, with about 200 boys witnessing the hanging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientific research cited in the report confirms the devastating impact on children. A 2006 study in the <em>Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology<\/em> found that viewing such scenes can cause moderate to severe mental health disorders, including post-traumatic stress, recurring intrusive memories, and strong physiological reactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JavaidRehman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JavaidRehman<\/a>: \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iranian?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iranian<\/a> regime has weaponized the death penalty to exterminate dissent. The international community failed to act in 1988. It must not fail again.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KYKjxTGaL8\">pic.twitter.com\/KYKjxTGaL8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1953896387793305608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Warnings From Within the Regime\u2019s Own Experts<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even regime-affiliated psychiatrists have sounded alarms about the destructive effects. In a letter to the judiciary on August 25, 2025, Vahid Shariat, head of the Iranian Psychiatric Association, warned:\u00a0\u201cThe execution of death sentences in public not only has no effect in reducing crime, but it also potentially increases violence. Research shows that after executions are carried out, the number of murders actually rises. We strongly insist that this practice be stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Similarly, psychiatrist Amirhossein Jalali Nedoushan stressed: \u201cIn a society already burdened with harsh and brutal violence, such measures make it increasingly rigid, ugly, and unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Normalizing Violence Through Spectacle<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Public executions not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/emhj-volume-12-2006\/volume-12-issue-1-2\/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-children-witnessing-a-public-hanging-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only traumatize children<\/a> but also serve to normalize cruelty. In recent years, the regime has encouraged citizens to take photos with executed prisoners, often under the supervision of regime officials. Turning death into a public spectacle is part of the regime\u2019s attempt to \u201cmake violence ordinary\u201d and desensitize society. When children treat executions as curiosity or entertainment, the moral boundary between life and brutality collapses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iran?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iran<\/a> News in Brief<br \/>Stunning confession by former regime insider reveals executions as a tool to silence dissent.<br \/>Emadeddin Baqi: &quot;The Judiciary announced the execution of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MohammadGhobadlou?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MohammadGhobadlou<\/a> and four Kurdish youths, which gained widespread attention due to their political\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5bJ0niKl6\">pic.twitter.com\/G5bJ0niKl6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/1754129128528216429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even regime-linked legal experts have admitted there is no law in Iran requiring executions to be carried out publicly. One jurist told <em>Ham-Mihan<\/em>:\u00a0\u201cThere is no article in Iran\u2019s penal code that explicitly defines any crime as punishable by public execution. This shows that the choice of method is not legal but political.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deliberate decision to stage executions in public is a psychological weapon\u2014designed to terrorize society at a time when protests and social demands are rising.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">The True Purpose: Suppressing a Restless Society<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime justifies executions as a deterrent, but the real aim is to maintain its grip on power. By staging death in public squares, the regime seeks to suppress explosive social anger and delay the next wave of uprisings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For 46 years, every president, parliament speaker, judiciary chief, and above all the supreme leader has been complicit in these crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">14th World Day Against the Death Penalty is an excellent opportunity to publicly oppose the use of this inhuman punishment <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NoDeathPenalty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NoDeathPenalty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6O74WNVLcU\">pic.twitter.com\/6O74WNVLcU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iran_policy\/status\/785573812544872449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toward a Final Confrontation<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shocking number of executions in 2024, along with scientific evidence of their destructive effects, confirms that the regime is engaged in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/death-penalty-in-iran-a-tool-to-control-the-unyielding-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">systematic psychological warfare<\/a> against its own people. Beneath this terror, however, lies a society yearning for life, freedom, and equality.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regime\u2019s spectacles of death cannot erase the reality that the Iranian people are preparing for a decisive confrontation with tyranny\u2014one that will end this cycle of repression and violence once and for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-minute read Newly released figures once again confirm that executions in Iran are not about justice, but about the regime&rsquo;s survival through fear and violence. 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