As the United Nations has adopted a resolution A leading dissident group condemned Iran for its wave of executions “in the strongest terms” and released a report accusing Tehran of putting to death 2,013 Iranians under President Masoud Pezeshkian between January 1 and December 15 this year.
The The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) report says this more than doubles the total of 975 executions counted by the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2024. The UN noted that the 2024 figure was the highest since 2015. group counted a comparable total of 1,001 executions in 2024.
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Pezeshkian accused the US of “grave treason” during the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2025 in New York City. (Jeenah Maan/Reuters)
The spokesperson continued: “The Trump administration has reinstated the policy of maximum pressure, ending the Biden administration’s policy of imposing fig-leaf sanctions and handing over billions to the regime. Since January, we have assigned dozens of people and more than 180 ships to Iran’s shadow fleet to deplete the regime’s coffers.”
“The lack of practical measures to support the Iranian people is a strategic goal of its own,” Taleblu said.
Taleblu noted that Iran “arrested more than 21,000 people” after the 12-day war in June, in addition to a “political repression that is even more extensive than ever before.” He said the Islamic Republic “understands how weak it is” and that any attempts to appear socially lenient, including with regard to hijab laws, are an attempt to “maintain their oligarchic political position in a post-Khamenei Iran.”
A view of the entrance to Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, October 17, 2022. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)
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Taleblu points to the previous Trump administration’s strong stance on Iran, saying that “the country can certainly do it much cheaper and more cost-effectively than it thinks.” Taleblu said one “simple” messaging strategy will emerge in March during President Trump’s Nowruz speech, when he can “pay tribute to the most pro-American, the most pro-Israel population in the heart of the Islamic Middle East.”
“The need for Washington to support Iranian protesters remains,” Taleblu said. “But that should be a constant in US foreign policy, given the attitude of the Iranian street, which is almost entirely against the Iranian state. US human rights policy towards Iran should not be limited to merely having social media accounts that are the stenographers for Iran’s decline into failed state status.”
The MEK has urged US policymakers to recognize the right of the Iranian people to resist and overthrow the regime, which they claim is the only means to eliminate the country’s theocracy.
On December 10, the European Parliament marked International Human Rights Day by calling on the world to take action against Iran over its campaign of executions. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of Iran’s National Council of Resistance, addressed parliament with her concerns that Iran is trying to suppress dissent. She insisted that “all relations with the regime must be conditional on a halt to executions,” placing members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Ministry of Intelligence “on the terrorist list.”
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Nooses with red roses are displayed during the Anglo-Iranian community meeting in support of the Iranian people’s push for a new revolution. Members of the Anglo-Iranian community, along with supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), commemorated the 45th anniversary of Iran’s revolution, which saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime and its eventual cession to a theocratic Islamic republic in 1979. (Loredana Sangiuliano/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Among those sentenced to death is Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old engineer and mother who, according to the MEK, received her sentence after a “10-minute mock trial… without her chosen legal representation.” MEK documents say Tabari was arrested for holding a banner reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom.”
The total number of executions in Iran has doubled since October. At the time, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said Iran was killing as many as nine prisoners every day, in what it called an “unprecedented wave of executions.” In response, death row inmates staged a hunger strike.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not comment on the report.
