{"id":340632,"date":"2025-12-19T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340632"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:19:00","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-december-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-december-19-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 December 19, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE: 08:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Killing Spree Continues as Regime Sets New Record For 2025 Executions, Dissident Group Says<\/h3>\n

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As the United Nations adopted\u00a0a resolution<\/a>\u00a0condemning Iran for its execution spree “in the strongest terms,” a leading dissident group released a report accusing Tehran of putting 2,013 Iranians to death under President Masoud Pezeshkian between Jan. 1 and Dec. 15 of this year.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/strong>Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) report says this more than doubles the total of 975 executions that the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights counted in 2024. The U.N. noted that the 2024 figure was the highest recorded since 2015. The\u00a0<\/strong>group counted a similar total of 1,001 executions in 2024.<\/p>\n

According to MEK documents provided to Fox News Digital, a free-falling Iranian currency,\u00a0nationwide protests<\/a>, factional power struggles, “snapback” U.N. sanctions and fractures among leaders are stoking the increase in executions. The MEK says that this year\u2019s execution total is the highest recorded since the 1980s.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 06:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Final Round for an Iranian Boxer?<\/h3>\n

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Hope is fading for Mohammad Javad Vafaei-Sani. Sentenced to death by the Iranian regime, the young boxer now faces the risk of an \u201cimminent\u201d execution after the Supreme Court in his country rejected his request for a retrial.<\/p>\n

Vafaei-Sani was arrested in 2020 for taking part in anti-government protests in 2019, sparked by a rise in fuel prices. Accused of being a member of the People\u2019s Mojahedin (MEK), an opposition group banned in Iran, he was sentenced to death for \u201ccorruption on earth,\u201d the most serious charge under Iran\u2019s Islamic Penal Code. Since then, his case has followed a roller-coaster course of justice: his death sentence was overturned twice, only to be reinstated.<\/p>\n

Human rights organizations and the Iranian opposition in exile have been following the case for five years. This week, the Norwegian NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR) stated that the boxer faces an \u201cimminent\u201d execution and that he was \u201ctortured to extract forced confessions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 03:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Seen Working on Nuclear Site Hit by US<\/h3>\n

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New satellite imagery shows recent activity at a\u00a0uranium<\/a>\u00a0enrichment facility in\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0that was damaged during June’s 12-day war with\u00a0Israel<\/a>\u00a0when U.S. and Israeli airstrikes targeted several of the country\u2019s\u00a0nuclear<\/a>\u00a0sites.<\/p>\n

The image raises concerns that\u00a0Tehran<\/a>\u00a0may be working to restore or recover aspects of its\u00a0nuclear program<\/a>, according to the U.S.-based Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS<\/a>). The image suggests Iran is taking steps to shield and access the damaged site, highlighting continued uncertainty over its nuclear intentions.<\/p>\n

The Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant (PFEP) at Natanz is a key site within Iran\u2019s nuclear complex, historically used for advanced enrichment research and development. Although the facility “likely held several kilograms of highly enriched uranium,” ISIS stressed that such material is \u201cnot negligible\u201d in the broader context of Iran\u2019s nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 02:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treasury Increases Pressure on Iran\u2019s Sanctions-Evading Shadow Fleet<\/h3>\n

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WASHINGTON<\/strong>\u2014Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is placing further pressure on the Iranian shadow fleet, which exports Iranian petroleum and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. \u00a0OFAC is targeting 29 shadow fleet vessels and their respective management firms that have transported hundreds of millions of dollars\u2019 worth of Iranian petroleum products.\u00a0 Today\u2019s action also targets\u00a0Hatem Elsaid Farid Ibrahim Sakr<\/strong>, an Egyptian businessman whose companies are associated with seven of the 29 shadow fleet vessels included in this action, as well as multiple shipping companies.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 01:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iranian Boxing Champion at Imminent Risk of Execution as Retrial Request Rejected<\/h3>\n

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A boxing champion in prison in Iran is thought to be at imminent risk of execution after his request for a retrial was rejected by the country\u2019s supreme court.\u00a0Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, 30, from Mashhad in north-east Iran was arrested in 2020 for taking part in nationwide democracy protests in 2019 and accused of supporting an opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK). He has spent five years in prison, where he has been tortured and put in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n

His request for a retrial was turned down on 15 December. On the same day, he was unexpectedly granted a visit from his mother, a move that campaigners believe could signal that he will soon be executed. She was told in a phone call from the prison that his case had been forwarded to the department for the implementation of sentences in Mashhad.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 08:00 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

How Iran\u2019s Regime Is Poisoning 59,000 Iranians A Year by Burning Hyper-Toxic Fuel<\/h3>\n

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As of December 18, 2025, the people of Iran are facing a bitter winter. While cold weather, the flu, and severe economic hardship have already made life difficult, the clerical regime is subjecting the population to the hidden crime of burning Mazut. Mazut is the heaviest, dirtiest residue of crude oil, full of sulfur and heavy metals. It is a fuel the world abandoned years ago, yet the mullahs inject it directly into the people\u2019s lungs. While the regime\u2019s president Masoud Pezeshkian has been in office for over a year, his administration has failed to curb a pollution crisis that is literally choking the nation. According to the regime\u2019s own Ministry of Health, 59,000 Iranians fall victim to air pollution every year.<\/p>\n

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Maryam Akbari Monfared Denied Medical Care, Warning of Possible Knee Surgery<\/h3>\n

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Maryam Akbari Monfared, a political prisoner held in Qarchak Prison, continues to be denied consistent access to specialized medical treatment, a delay that could lead to a serious deterioration of her physical condition and the need for knee surgery. Over the past week, she has been transferred several times to medical facilities outside the prison to receive physiotherapy and chiropractic care. However, prison authorities have conditioned the continuation of her treatment on referrals to state-run medical centers, facilities which lack the capacity to provide the specialized care she requires. Her request for access to an appropriate treatment center on her own expense has so far gone unanswered.<\/p>\n

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Iran: Rising Gasoline Prices and the Unprecedented Collapse of the Rial<\/h3>\n

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Iran\u2019s rial continues to fall and has reached the lowest level in its historical record. As a result, the U.S. dollar exchange rate in the open market has surpassed 1.32 million rials. This sharp decline comes less than two weeks after the rial crossed the 1.2 million thresholds against the dollar for the first time, a trend that has accelerated under the pressure of sanctions and escalating regional tensions. In a report, the Associated Press news agency addressed the unprecedented decline in the value of Iran\u2019s national currency, writing that currency traders in Tehran on Thursday, December 18, quoted rates higher than 1,320,000 rials per dollar, indicating the rapid pace of the rial\u2019s depreciation since December 3, the date when it reached a historic record.<\/p>\n

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Engineered Crises and a Broken Future: How Iran\u2019s Regime Destroys Knowledge and Human Capital<\/h3>\n

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From mass graduate unemployment to rising addiction among students, official data expose a deliberate strategy of social exhaustion under clerical rule. The Iranian regime is no longer governing; it is merely surviving\u2014encircled by self-made crises and sustained through daily attrition. Reports, statistics, and even admissions by regime-affiliated experts confirm a consistent tactic: bend society under manufactured pressures until it loses the capacity to stand. The destructive consequences of these engineered crises have gone far beyond temporary hardship, eroding economic infrastructure and systematically dismantling Iran\u2019s human capital. A striking illustration appeared in Jahan-e Sanat on December 16, 2025, documenting the growing futility of education and expertise under the clerical regime.<\/p>\n

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Also, read Iran News in Brief \u2013 December 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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