28 March 2025 :
March 26, 2025 - IRAN. Iran’s Regime Carried Out 1,153 Executions in Persian Year 1403 – A 42% Surge Compared to 1402
Among the victims were 38 women and 7 juvenile offenders, and 7 executions were conducted in public with extreme brutality.
The number of executions in 1403 increased by 42% compared to the 815 executions recorded in 1402.
The sharp acceleration in executions is evident when comparing the last two months of the year (Bahman and Esfand) with the previous year’s figures:
Traditionally, Bahman sees fewer executions due to the anniversary of the 1979 revolution (February 11). In Bahman 1402, 36 executions were recorded, whereas in Bahman 1403, the number surged to 74, more than double.
In Esfand 1402, 21 executions were recorded, but in Esfand 1403, this number skyrocketed to 121—nearly 6 times higher. This occurred despite the last 20 days of Esfand coinciding with Ramadan, a period in which executions were historically lower.
961 of the executions (83%) were carried out during Masoud Pezeshkian’s tenure (from late July 2024 till 20 March 2025).
The recorded executions in 1403 took place in 94 prisons across 31 provinces. The prisons with the highest number of executions include:
Ghezel Hesar Prison: at least 186 executions
Adel Abad Prison, Shiraz: 112 executions
Dastgerd Prison, Isfahan: 88 executions
Tabriz Central Prison: 62 executions
Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad: 46 executions
Choobindar Prison, Qazvin: 37 executions
Zahedan Central Prison: 34 executions
Yazd Central Prison: 30 executions
Karaj Central Prison: 29 executions
Lakan Prison, Rasht, and Zanjan Central Prison: 27 executions each
Recording executions in remote prisons is significantly more difficult, making it impossible to document many victims’ names.
Among the executed, 135 individuals (about 12%) were from the impoverished and oppressed Baluch compatriots, a disproportionately high number relative to their population.
The ages of 605 of the 1,153 executed prisoners have been recorded, with an average age of less than 36 years.
At least 38 women were executed in 1403, marking a 90% increase compared to the 20 women executed in 1402.
7 of those executed were under 18 at the time of the alleged crime.
7 prisoners were publicly executed in 1403 in the cities of Hamedan, Esfarayen, Khomein, Taybad, Shahroud, and Isfahan.
The extent of the regime’s crimes is indescribable. On August 7 and March 1 alone, 29 prisoners were hanged each day. On February 26, 25 prisoners were executed, on January 1, 21 were executed, and on October 16, 20 prisoners were executed. Among those executed on March 1 were three Baluch brothers—Jalal, Javad, and Alireza Afagh—in Mashhad, as well as two other brothers, Gholamhossein and Ebrahim Khalili Far, also in Mashhad. A father and son were also hanged in Qorveh.
More than 1/2 of the victims (566 prisoners) were executed on drug-related charges. Meanwhile, the IRGC and other mafia networks affiliated with Khamenei control the vast drug trade, generating billions of dollars inside Iran, the region, and beyond—some of which was exposed after the fall of the Syrian dictator.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), stated: For 45 years, Iran’s ruling religious fascism has based its survival strategy on domestic torture and executions, alongside exporting war and terrorism abroad. Now, after suffering irreparable setbacks in the region and facing the growing threat of an uprising and overthrow, the regime has brutally accelerated executions and massacres. She called on the Iranian people, especially the youth, to protest these brutal executions and to join the ‘No to Execution’ movement.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that inaction against the godfather of executions, terrorism, and warmongering is not only a betrayal of recognized human rights principles but also a grave threat to regional and international peace. She urged the international community to condition any dealings with the regime on the cessation of torture and executions, refer Iran’s human rights violations file to the UN Security Council, and, as requested by the UN Special Rapporteur in the July 2024 report, bring Ali Khamenei and other regime leaders to justice for crimes against humanity and genocide.
