The theocratic regime ruling Iran continues to try to preserve its rule through executions and suppression of the youth, with 17 executions on February 19 and 20, 2025.
On Monday, February 24, 2025, Iran’s rebellious youth, chanting the slogan “No to executions,” responded to the regime’s 17 executions and the 854 executions during Ebrahim Raisi’s presidency with 15 operations.
In this round of operations, while setting fire to the images of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini and supreme leader Ali Khamenei and regime symbols in various cities, the rebellious youth also struck at the regime’s Basij bases, centers of fundamentalism and crime, and suppression centers as follows:
- Setting fire to three IRGC Basij bases in Isfahan
- Setting fire to the center of fundamentalism, crime, and suppression of women in Tehran
- Setting fire to a center of fundamentalism, crime, and suppression of women in Mashhad
- Setting fire to a regime center for plundering public wealth and resources in Tehran
- Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Zahedan
- Setting fire to a Basij base in Hamadan
- Setting fire to the Khomeini Relief Committee in Saravan
- Setting fire to a Basij base in Dezful
- Setting fire to government banners bearing the images of Khomeini, Khamenei, and Qassem Soleimani in Tehran, Karaj, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Sari, and Bushehr
The clerical regime, which sees the continuation of its oppressive rule dependent on executions, torture, suppression, and intimidation of the frustrated Iranian people, following the executions on February 20 and 21, also executed nine prisoners in the cities of Isfahan, Zanjan, Qorveh, Ahvaz, and Shiraz on February 23-25.
Rejecting the retrial requests of prisoners sentenced to death is another step in the direction of preserving Khamenei’s rule through the blood of Iranian youth.
On Sunday, February 24, 2025, the Supreme Court rejected the retrial requests for the death sentences of Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, placing these two prisoners at risk of execution.
Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, issued an urgent appeal calling for a halt to the executions of Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani, writing: “I call on the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt the execution of Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani. Their death sentences were upheld by the Supreme Court after trials allegedly marred by torture and forced confessions.”
من از جمهوری اسلامی ایران میخواهم که اجرای حکم اعدام بهروز احسانی و مهدی حسنی را متوقف کند. احکام اعدام آنها پس از محاکماتی که گفته میشود با شکنجه و اعترافات اجباری همراه بوده، توسط دیوان عالی کشور تأیید شده است. https://t.co/pjGQ0h9kOz
— Mai Sato (@drmaisato.bsky.social) (@drmaisato) February 25, 2025
Amnesty International also called for the immediate annulment of his death sentence in its appeals on January 16 and January 23, 2025, calling the sentence, which was based on charges of supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), grossly unfair.