{"id":340789,"date":"2025-12-24T07:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T06:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=340789"},"modified":"2025-12-24T13:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:46:59","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-december-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-december-24-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 December 24, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_340801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340801\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-340801 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025.jpg\" alt=\"NCRI supporters in Zurich, Switzerland, held a photo exhibition on December 22, 2025\" width=\"1000\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025-741x420.jpg 741w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/zurich-switzerland-ncri-supporters-22122025-696x395.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NCRI supporters in Zurich, Switzerland, held a photo exhibition on December 22, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: 01:30 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">FBI: The Iranian Regime Presents a Threat from Many Angles<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30563 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/FBI-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"FBI-Logo\" width=\"116\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Threats from the Iranian regime and its terrorist partners can reach across the globe. The FBI is committed to identifying and disrupting all Iranian intelligence and military operations that threaten American citizens or our nation&#8217;s security and critical infrastructure.\u00a0Working with our intelligence and law enforcement partners worldwide, the FBI has countered a diverse set of threats directed by the Iranian regime, including attempted terrorist attacks and kidnappings, espionage and foreign influence operations, cyber attacks, sanctions evasion, and illicit procurement of sensitive technology to support Iran\u2019s military capability and nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Iranian regime has used repressive tactics in its wrongful detention of Americans in Iran on unsubstantiated criminal charges. The Iranian regime has also exported its repression through its harassment and lethal targeting of Iranian dissidents worldwide, including Americans living in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\/counterintelligence\/the-iran-threat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: 09:00 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"211\">Missiles Seized in Al-Bukamal Were to Be Smuggled to Hezbollah in Lebanon<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254752 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/sharq-al-awsat-logo-300x74.png\" alt=\"sharq-al-awsat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"213\" data-end=\"454\">Sources close to the Syrian Ministry of Interior reported that the SAM-7 anti-aircraft missiles seized in the Al-Bukamal area of Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria were intended to be smuggled to Hezbollah in Lebanon via Syrian territory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"896\">The sources told <em data-start=\"473\" data-end=\"490\">Asharq Al-Awsat<\/em> that during the years of the Syrian war, missiles were being smuggled from Iran through Iraqi territory into Syria via a network of tunnels dug by Iranian militias and their affiliated groups when they controlled the Al-Bukamal area. At that time, these forces were fighting alongside the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which was overthrown on December 8, 2024, by Syrian factions led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"898\" data-end=\"1113\">The sources further indicated that the intended recipient of the missile shipment smuggled through Syrian territory was Hezbollah in Lebanon, which had also fought alongside the Assad regime during the war in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"898\" data-end=\"1113\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aawsat.com\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A\/5222140-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B6%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B7%D8%A9-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AE%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA-%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%AD%D8%B2%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D9%81%D9%8A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">US Envoy for Iraq Praises Militia Disarmament Signals but Demands Binding National Framework<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-332298 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/THE_MEDIALINE_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/THE_MEDIALINE_logo.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/THE_MEDIALINE_logo-150x85.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US envoy Mark Savaya has welcomed reported moves by Iraqi armed groups toward disarmament, while insisting that only a binding national framework can make the process real and lasting. He framed the moment as a decisive test for Iraq\u2019s sovereignty and rule of law amid intense US pressure to curb Iran-aligned militias. Posting on social media platform X, Savaya said the reported steps toward disarmament were an encouraging sign and described them as a positive response to long-standing appeals from Iraq\u2019s top religious authorities. He emphasized that those clerical leaders\u00a0provide\u00a0moral guidance that continues to act as a compass for the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The reported steps by Iraqi armed groups toward disarmament are a welcome and encouraging development. This move represents a positive response to the longstanding calls and aspirations of the Marjaeya and our respected religious authorities. I extend my deep appreciation for\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5X8MQCMqqi\">pic.twitter.com\/5X8MQCMqqi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mark Savaya (@Mark_Savaya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mark_Savaya\/status\/2002897016654078111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2025<\/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;\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">He warned, however, that statements of intent are not enough and stressed that disarmament must be comprehensive and irreversible, carried out through a clear, binding national framework grounded in the constitution and rule of law. Savaya argued that this framework should dismantle all armed factions and ensure an orderly, lawful shift of their members into civilian life.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:120,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themedialine.org\/headlines\/us-envoy-for-iraq-praises-militia-disarmament-signals-but-demands-binding-national-framework\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Experts Urge Iran to Stop Execution of Woman Activist<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-340805 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bbc-news-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bbc-news-logo.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bbc-news-logo-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN experts and 400 prominent women have urged Iran not to execute Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old electrical engineer and women&#8217;s rights activist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Tabari was arrested in April and accused of collaborating with a banned opposition group, the People&#8217;s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), according to her family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In October, she was convicted of &#8220;armed rebellion&#8221; by a Revolutionary Court in Rasht after a trial via video link that lasted less than 10 minutes. Her family said the verdict was based on extremely limited and unreliable evidence: a piece of cloth bearing the words &#8220;Woman, Resistance, Freedom&#8221;, and an unpublished audio message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian authorities have not yet commented on the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwyxz5jken3o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">UPDATE: 07:30 AM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How The Iranian Regime\u2019s \u2018Automotive Mafia\u2019 Is Suffocating the Population<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51914 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Iran-450000-Automotive-Industry-Workers-on-the-Verge-of-Unemployment-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Iran: 450,000 Automotive Industry Workers on the Verge of Unemployment\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Iran-450000-Automotive-Industry-Workers-on-the-Verge-of-Unemployment-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Iran-450000-Automotive-Industry-Workers-on-the-Verge-of-Unemployment-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Iran-450000-Automotive-Industry-Workers-on-the-Verge-of-Unemployment-696x441.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Iran-450000-Automotive-Industry-Workers-on-the-Verge-of-Unemployment.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The air pollution crisis in Iran has transcended the boundaries of an environmental challenge, reaching a deadly threshold that can only be described as a \u201csilent massacre.\u201d As winter sets in and flu season exacerbates respiratory issues, the Iranian people are not just battling viruses, but a toxic atmosphere engineered by regime corruption. According to official admissions by the regime\u2019s own Ministry of Health on November 10, air pollution now claims the lives of 57,000 Iranians annually. This staggering figure can no longer be dismissed as the cost of industrial development or a natural occurrence; it is a systematic killing where the perpetrators are well-known figures within the ruling establishment. While the burning of Mazut (heavy fuel oil) in power plants is a significant factor, a second, equally lethal culprit is the mass production of substandard vehicles by domestic manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/english.mojahedin.org\/article\/how-the-iranian-regimes-automotive-mafia-is-suffocating-the-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahdieh Keyhani and Mahin Rashidi: Execution of Two women in Iran<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-338416 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"No to Executions Tuesdays Week 91\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91-746x420.jpg 746w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/No-to-Executions-Tuesdays-Week-91.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Amid the ongoing wave of executions in Iran, two female prisoners, Mahdieh Keyhani, 41, and Mahin Rashidi, 39, were executed in the central prisons of Hamedan and Shiraz. At dawn on Sunday, December 21, 2025, the death sentence of Mahdieh Keyhani, a 41-year-old woman from Tabriz, was carried out in Hamedan Central Prison. She had been arrested approximately five years ago in Hamedan on charges of the \u201cpremeditated murder of her husband\u201d and was sentenced to qisas (retributive execution) by the Iranian regime\u2019s judiciary. Separately, on the morning of Wednesday, December 17, 2025, Mahin Rashidi, a 39-year-old woman from Kashan, was executed in Shiraz Central Prison. She had been detained around one year and four months earlier on charges related to drug offenses and subsequently sentenced to death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wncri.org\/2025\/12\/23\/mahdieh-keyhani-mahin-rashidi-executed-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">203 Cases of Femicide Recorded in Iran in Current Year<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-331901 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NCRI-Women-Femicide-in-Iran-min-1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NCRI-Women-Femicide-in-Iran-min-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NCRI-Women-Femicide-in-Iran-min-1-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NCRI-Women-Femicide-in-Iran-min-1-696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NCRI-Women-Femicide-in-Iran-min-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The human rights organization Hengaw, in a report warning about the rise in femicide in Iran, wrote that during the current year (starting from March 21, 2025), 203 cases of femicide were recorded in the country. The report states: \u201cDue to the anti-women laws of the Iranian regime, as well as patriarchal and so-called honor-based social relations in Iranian society, a significant portion of femicide cases fall into the category of hidden statistics.\u201d In another report published on November 25, Hengaw wrote that from the beginning of the current Gregorian year until November 25, 2025, at least 176 cases of femicide were recorded in various cities across Iran, with at least 25 cases motivated by so-called honor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iranfocus.com\/human-rights\/56454-203-cases-of-femicide-recorded-in-iran-in-current-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mass Executions in Iran: How the Regime Turned the Death Penalty into a Tool of Political Survival<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-323154 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/iran-executions-flag-gallows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/iran-executions-flag-gallows.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/iran-executions-flag-gallows-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With more than 1,700 executions in 2025, the Iranian regime is using capital punishment as a calculated mechanism of repression, fear, and ideological control. Executions in the Iranian regime of Iran have long stood at the center of international concern over human rights violations. In 2025, however, this practice has reached unprecedented and alarming dimensions. Reports by human rights organizations indicate that more than 1,400 executions were carried out from the beginning of the year through mid-November, with supplementary data suggesting the number has exceeded 1,700, making 2025 one of the bloodiest years of the past four decades. This is not merely a matter of criminal justice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/irannewsupdate.com\/news\/human-rights\/mass-executions-in-iran-how-the-regime-turned-the-death-penalty-into-a-tool-of-political-survival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-december-23-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Also, read Iran News in Brief \u2013 December 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS UPDATE: 01:30 PM CET FBI: The Iranian Regime Presents a Threat from Many Angles Threats from the Iranian regime and its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":340801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[277],"class_list":{"0":"post-340789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran-news-in-brief-news","8":"tag-iran-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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