IRAN is slaughtering its personal folks in “unprecedented numbers” of executions going down each couple of hours as its “paranoid” regime lashes out within the wake of defeats towards its proxies to Israel.
A swathe of stunning proof – together with official figures and letters from loss of life row prisoners – gathered by The Solar exposes that Iran’s killing machine is answerable for over three quarters of all the world’s executions.
Official information present that the variety of executions final yr reached 1,000 – the best quantity in 30 years and 16 p.c larger than final yr.
Iranian resistance group the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) warns that the true quantity is “considerably larger”, nonetheless, contemplating the regime’s use of secret executions.
On New 12 months’s Day alone, no less than 12 folks have been hanged in prisons throughout the nation.
The grim toll contains girls, kids and political prisoners – usually sentenced to loss of life with none regard to a good trial or due course of.
‘SIGN OF WEAKNESS’
Behzad Nazari, a former political prisoner of the regime, who managed to flee from one in all Iran’s most infamous prisons, has advised The Solar how the the “unprecedented surge” in executions is a “signal of the weak spot of a regime on the verge of being overthrown”.
Nazari, a member of the NCRI’s overseas committee, whose personal sister was executed, mentioned: “The unprecedented variety of executions signifies that the regime is certainly changing into more and more
paranoid.
“These actions are a determined try by Khamenei to suppress any dissent and preserve management amid rising unrest and calls for for regime change.
“We should keep in mind that this regime has stored its grip on
energy by way of repression and executions at dwelling, and terrorism and warmongering overseas, primarily by way of its proxies.
“Being the world’s document holder for the variety of executions per capita is just not an indication of power; it signifies a failure to quell dissent regardless of its brutal habits.
From the time I used to be sentenced to loss of life and held in solitary confinement to witnessing the executions of expensive associates and comrades up shut … I not know the way rather more I need to see and endure.
Saeed Masouri, prisoner on Iran’s loss of life row
“Subsequently, the unprecedented surge in executions, like with all dictators, reveals that this regime can also be on its final leg and sees no future for its rule within the face of rising opposition.
“The inhumane homicide of its populace below any pretext is barely an indication of the weak spot of a regime on the verge of being overthrown.”
Of the 1,000 executed in 2024, 34 have been girls and 7 have been below 18 on the time of their crime.
MEDIEVAL PUNISHMENTS
Greater than half have been sentenced for drug-related crimes regardless of, based on the NCRI, the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) controlling all the foremost drug trafficking operations in Iran price billions of {dollars}.
In addition to the surging numbers of executions, torture, prisoners are topic to different medieval-style punishments similar to public flogging, limb-removal and eye-gouging.
One prisoner from the 2017 rebellion was sentenced to have his eyes gouged for allegedly blinding a State Safety Power officer by throwing a stone, two brothers had their fingers amputated in Urmia Jail and two different prisoners had their fingers severed in Qom Jail.
Whereas most of the heinous punishments go unreported, Nazari cites the instance of two males within the Qom province, who state media reported have been sentenced to have their palms chopped off for alleged theft.
“This brutal punishment was carried out whereas the leaders of the regime and the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard are the most important thieves in Iran’s historical past, embezzling billions of {dollars}
of individuals’s belongings or losing them on tasks associated to repression, nuclear actions, warmongering, and sponsoring terrorism to protect the regime,” he mentioned.
“The inhumane homicide of its populace below any pretext is barely an indication of the weak spot of a regime on the verge of being overthrown.
Behzad Nazari, former political prisoner
The NCRI say that the sample of executions throughout 2024 is instantly tied to the regime’s political developments, crises and defeats – with 47 p.c of prisoners hanged over the last quarter of the yr because the regime and its terror proxies confronted extreme defeats within the area towards Israel together with the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Some 695 of the 1,000 executions, befell after late July, below president Massoud Pezeshkian, who has beforehand defended his observe document of executions saying: “Those that discuss human rights ask why we execute murderers.”
Nazari, a former journalist who was arrested in 1982 after his painter and musician sister Giti Nazari, believes issues will solely worsen in Iran 2025 because the regime fears it can face the identical destiny as Bashar Al Assad’s ousted dictatorship in Syria.
Nazari was topic to horrendous torture for 3 years in two of Iran’s most infamous prisons Evin and Qazal Hesar, earlier than discovering a uncommon alternative to flee just for his father to be held hostage in his place for 5 years.
He mentioned: “The Iranian dictatorship’s predominant problem has all the time been the struggle towards its outraged folks demanding the overthrow of the ruling theocracy for the previous 4 many years.
“The mullahs’ regime has suffered critical setback dwelling in 2024 such because the nationwide boycott of the election and rising actions by Resistance Items in Iran.”
WARMONGERING ABROAD
“The opposite side of the survival technique has been creating crises outdoors its borders,” Nazari added.
“The harmful Iran-Iraq Warfare within the ’80s and, extra lately, instigating battle within the Center East are simply two examples.
“Truly, following the huge 2022 anti-regime rebellion that shook the regime to the core, Khamenei initiated the struggle within the area.
“However the regime has been the most important strategic loser of the battle evident in defeat of Hezbollah, and extra importantly the downfall of Assad’s dictatorship. This has offered impetus to extra resistance and prompted vital defection among the many ranks of the regime.
“These medieval crimes, nonetheless, double the resolve of Iran’s youth to topple the spiritual dictatorship
Behzad Nazari, former political prisoner
“Therefore the regime’s growing brutality is a mirrored image of its frustrations stemming from the worry of going through the identical destiny as Assad’s dictatorship.”
Nazari says the horrific punishments measures are usually used to “intimidate” the general public – including that usually individuals are sentenced with no truthful trial saying “the proof factors to an entire disregard for due course of.”
However he added that the rise in executions has “did not cease the surge within the dissent” and has really had the reverse influence particularly amongst girls and the youthful era.
“These medieval crimes, nonetheless, double the resolve of Iran’s youth to topple the spiritual dictatorship,” he added.
HUNGER STRIKES
Political prisoners in 30 prisons in Iran have been happening starvation strike each Tuesday for a yr in protest on the executions as a part of the “No to Execution Tuesdays”.
The Solar was given a shifting recording of courageous girls at Evin jail, who regardless of going through torture, final month chanted and sang shifting protest songs demanding that loss of life sentences be banned and vowing to “struggle to the final stand”.
Nazari and the NCRI have now referred to as for the US and UK to carry Iran to account for its crimes.
“The West should acknowledge the extreme human rights abuses occurring in Iran and the pressing want for a robust worldwide response,” he mentioned.
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
“The opposite facet of this savagery at house is belligerence and terrorism overseas…
“Its leaders should be delivered to justice for 45 years of crimes towards humanity and genocide.
“We subsequently urge the brand new administrations within the UK and U.S. to situation any dealings with the Iranian regime on an instantaneous halt to executions and torture.
“It’s important to carry the regime accountable for its crimes
towards humanity and to help the Iranian folks’s wrestle for freedom and democracy.”
The NCRI chief Maryam Rajavi mentioned: “Khamenei resorts to those executions to suppress the folks’s rebellion demanding the regime’s overthrow.
“Nevertheless, these atrocities solely strengthen the dedication of Iran’s youth to overthrow the spiritual dictatorship.
“The regime should be ostracized by the worldwide neighborhood, and any dealings with it ought to be conditioned on halting executions and torture. Its leaders should be held accountable earlier than justice.”
IRAN is slaughtering its personal folks in “unprecedented numbers” of executions going down each couple of hours as its “paranoid” regime lashes out within the wake of defeats towards its proxies to Israel.
A swathe of stunning proof – together with official figures and letters from loss of life row prisoners – gathered by The Solar exposes that Iran’s killing machine is answerable for over three quarters of all the world’s executions.
Official information present that the variety of executions final yr reached 1,000 – the best quantity in 30 years and 16 p.c larger than final yr.
Iranian resistance group the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) warns that the true quantity is “considerably larger”, nonetheless, contemplating the regime’s use of secret executions.
On New 12 months’s Day alone, no less than 12 folks have been hanged in prisons throughout the nation.
The grim toll contains girls, kids and political prisoners – usually sentenced to loss of life with none regard to a good trial or due course of.
‘SIGN OF WEAKNESS’
Behzad Nazari, a former political prisoner of the regime, who managed to flee from one in all Iran’s most infamous prisons, has advised The Solar how the the “unprecedented surge” in executions is a “signal of the weak spot of a regime on the verge of being overthrown”.
Nazari, a member of the NCRI’s overseas committee, whose personal sister was executed, mentioned: “The unprecedented variety of executions signifies that the regime is certainly changing into more and more
paranoid.
“These actions are a determined try by Khamenei to suppress any dissent and preserve management amid rising unrest and calls for for regime change.
“We should keep in mind that this regime has stored its grip on
energy by way of repression and executions at dwelling, and terrorism and warmongering overseas, primarily by way of its proxies.
“Being the world’s document holder for the variety of executions per capita is just not an indication of power; it signifies a failure to quell dissent regardless of its brutal habits.
From the time I used to be sentenced to loss of life and held in solitary confinement to witnessing the executions of expensive associates and comrades up shut … I not know the way rather more I need to see and endure.
Saeed Masouri, prisoner on Iran’s loss of life row
“Subsequently, the unprecedented surge in executions, like with all dictators, reveals that this regime can also be on its final leg and sees no future for its rule within the face of rising opposition.
“The inhumane homicide of its populace below any pretext is barely an indication of the weak spot of a regime on the verge of being overthrown.”
Of the 1,000 executed in 2024, 34 have been girls and 7 have been below 18 on the time of their crime.
MEDIEVAL PUNISHMENTS
Greater than half have been sentenced for drug-related crimes regardless of, based on the NCRI, the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) controlling all the foremost drug trafficking operations in Iran price billions of {dollars}.
In addition to the surging numbers of executions, torture, prisoners are topic to different medieval-style punishments similar to public flogging, limb-removal and eye-gouging.
One prisoner from the 2017 rebellion was sentenced to have his eyes gouged for allegedly blinding a State Safety Power officer by throwing a stone, two brothers had their fingers amputated in Urmia Jail and two different prisoners had their fingers severed in Qom Jail.
Whereas most of the heinous punishments go unreported, Nazari cites the instance of two males within the Qom province, who state media reported have been sentenced to have their palms chopped off for alleged theft.
“This brutal punishment was carried out whereas the leaders of the regime and the commanders of the Revolutionary Guard are the most important thieves in Iran’s historical past, embezzling billions of {dollars}
of individuals’s belongings or losing them on tasks associated to repression, nuclear actions, warmongering, and sponsoring terrorism to protect the regime,” he mentioned.
“The inhumane homicide of its populace below any pretext is barely an indication of the weak spot of a regime on the verge of being overthrown.
Behzad Nazari, former political prisoner
The NCRI say that the sample of executions throughout 2024 is instantly tied to the regime’s political developments, crises and defeats – with 47 p.c of prisoners hanged over the last quarter of the yr because the regime and its terror proxies confronted extreme defeats within the area towards Israel together with the defeat of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Some 695 of the 1,000 executions, befell after late July, below president Massoud Pezeshkian, who has beforehand defended his observe document of executions saying: “Those that discuss human rights ask why we execute murderers.”
Nazari, a former journalist who was arrested in 1982 after his painter and musician sister Giti Nazari, believes issues will solely worsen in Iran 2025 because the regime fears it can face the identical destiny as Bashar Al Assad’s ousted dictatorship in Syria.
Nazari was topic to horrendous torture for 3 years in two of Iran’s most infamous prisons Evin and Qazal Hesar, earlier than discovering a uncommon alternative to flee just for his father to be held hostage in his place for 5 years.
He mentioned: “The Iranian dictatorship’s predominant problem has all the time been the struggle towards its outraged folks demanding the overthrow of the ruling theocracy for the previous 4 many years.
“The mullahs’ regime has suffered critical setback dwelling in 2024 such because the nationwide boycott of the election and rising actions by Resistance Items in Iran.”
WARMONGERING ABROAD
“The opposite side of the survival technique has been creating crises outdoors its borders,” Nazari added.
“The harmful Iran-Iraq Warfare within the ’80s and, extra lately, instigating battle within the Center East are simply two examples.
“Truly, following the huge 2022 anti-regime rebellion that shook the regime to the core, Khamenei initiated the struggle within the area.
“However the regime has been the most important strategic loser of the battle evident in defeat of Hezbollah, and extra importantly the downfall of Assad’s dictatorship. This has offered impetus to extra resistance and prompted vital defection among the many ranks of the regime.
“These medieval crimes, nonetheless, double the resolve of Iran’s youth to topple the spiritual dictatorship
Behzad Nazari, former political prisoner
“Therefore the regime’s growing brutality is a mirrored image of its frustrations stemming from the worry of going through the identical destiny as Assad’s dictatorship.”
Nazari says the horrific punishments measures are usually used to “intimidate” the general public – including that usually individuals are sentenced with no truthful trial saying “the proof factors to an entire disregard for due course of.”
However he added that the rise in executions has “did not cease the surge within the dissent” and has really had the reverse influence particularly amongst girls and the youthful era.
“These medieval crimes, nonetheless, double the resolve of Iran’s youth to topple the spiritual dictatorship,” he added.
HUNGER STRIKES
Political prisoners in 30 prisons in Iran have been happening starvation strike each Tuesday for a yr in protest on the executions as a part of the “No to Execution Tuesdays”.
The Solar was given a shifting recording of courageous girls at Evin jail, who regardless of going through torture, final month chanted and sang shifting protest songs demanding that loss of life sentences be banned and vowing to “struggle to the final stand”.
Nazari and the NCRI have now referred to as for the US and UK to carry Iran to account for its crimes.
“The West should acknowledge the extreme human rights abuses occurring in Iran and the pressing want for a robust worldwide response,” he mentioned.
CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
“The opposite facet of this savagery at house is belligerence and terrorism overseas…
“Its leaders should be delivered to justice for 45 years of crimes towards humanity and genocide.
“We subsequently urge the brand new administrations within the UK and U.S. to situation any dealings with the Iranian regime on an instantaneous halt to executions and torture.
“It’s important to carry the regime accountable for its crimes
towards humanity and to help the Iranian folks’s wrestle for freedom and democracy.”
The NCRI chief Maryam Rajavi mentioned: “Khamenei resorts to those executions to suppress the folks’s rebellion demanding the regime’s overthrow.
“Nevertheless, these atrocities solely strengthen the dedication of Iran’s youth to overthrow the spiritual dictatorship.
“The regime should be ostracized by the worldwide neighborhood, and any dealings with it ought to be conditioned on halting executions and torture. Its leaders should be held accountable earlier than justice.”