Iran reportedly carried out six prisoners on Saturday, the regime of which claimed to carry out fatal attacks in the oil -rich southwest of the country on behalf of Israel, which marks the last increase in executions that law groups say that the levels in decades have been reached unseen.
The six executions were reported by the Associated Press, as well as the Iranian news agency Mizan.
A seventh prisoner, accused of killing a Sunni spiritual in 2009, together with other crimes, was executed in the province of Kurdistan.
Saturday’s executions follow the 12-day Iran-Israel War in June, which ended with Tehran that it would focus its enemies at home and abroad.
Iran doubles more than executions of the state in the first half of 2025
A woman resigns flowers for the victims of executions in Iran during a meeting in Paris, France, on May 13, 2025. (Siavosh Hosseini/Sopa Images/Lighttrocket via Getty Images)
According to Amnesty International, the Iranian authorities have so far executed more than 1,000 people in 2025, the highest annual figure that the group has registered in at least 15 years.
Iran said that the six men connected to Israel killed police officers and security forces, as well as orchestrated bombing aimed at locations around Khorramshahr in the relaxing province of Khuzestan in Iran. Iranian state television broadcast images of one of the men who talked about the attacks and said it was the first time that the details were made public.
A Kurdish group called the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights said that the six were actually Arabic political prisoners who were arrested during the 2019 protests. Hengaw said that Iran accused them of having ties with the Arab battle movement for the liberation of Ahvaz, a separatist group the fault of pipeline bomb attacks and other attacks in the region.
The group insisted that the men were tortured and forced to compulsively give television.
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, depicted sitting next to a high military officer in Iran. (Getty Images)
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The seventh prisoner, Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh, a Kurd, was convicted of the murder of Mamouousta Sheikh al-Islam, a Pro-Government Sunni spiritual in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj.
Activists have questioned the Khiyareh case and noticing that he was only 15 or 16 at the time of the murder, was arrested at 19 and was held for more than a decade before his execution. His conviction, they said, relied on confessions that were extracted under torture – accuse a practical activists to regularly use Iranian courts.
The number of state versions has been drastically escalated since President Massoud Pezeshkian took office in July 2024. 975 people were executed In 2024, according to figures from the United Nations. Pezeshkian answers to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who owns the ultimate authority in the country.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Tehran. This year Iran has had to deal with international control over an increase in executions. (Iranian presidency / handout / anadolu via getty images)
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Iran has put prisoners to death at an unseen pace since 1988, when it executed thousands at the end of the war in Iran-Iraq.
Independent experts in the field of UN Human Rights have been the alarm about the large number of executions and called it “a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights legislation”, according to a recent press release from the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“With an average of more than nine curtains per day in recent weeks, Iran seems to perform executions on an industrial scale that defend all accepted standards for the protection of human rights,” the body said.
The Associated Press and Reuters have contributed to this report
