At noon on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, the Iranian regime’s judiciary announced the execution of 42-year-old Fathollah Avari, who was arrested during the massive January uprisings in Malard, southwest of Tehran.
The regime deliberately kept the exact date and location of the execution secret in its official announcements, though reports confirm he was hanged on Tuesday, June 2, in Hamedan Prison.
The judiciary and the Ministry of Intelligence charged Avari with punishing Mohammad Javad Bakhshian, a major in the repressive State Security Force (SSF). Bakhshian was killed in a confrontation with protesters while actively playing a role in suppressing the January uprising in Hamedan.
A broader campaign of collective punishment and state terror
This secret hanging is part of a staggering, daily surge in state-sanctioned killings targeting participants of the recent uprisings. Just days prior, on June 1, the regime executed two rebellious youths, Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki. Labeled as leaders of the January uprising, they were sentenced to death by the notorious “hanging judge” Abolqasem Salavati in Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. They were convicted on heavily fabricated charges, including setting fire to the so-called ‘Imam Hadi’ seminary and the Basij center at the Jafari Mosque in Kuy-e Nasr (Gisha), western Tehran.
On May 25, Abbas Akbari Faizabadi, a protester from Nain, was executed for “Moharebeh” (waging war against God).
The regime is demonstrating immense vindictiveness against protesters. On May 13, 55-year-old Mohammad Abbasi was hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison for his involvement in the Malard protests following severe torture in Evin Prison’s Ward 209. In a staggering display of cruelty, his daughter, Fatemeh, was simultaneously sentenced to 25 years in Evin Prison.
The regime has carried out dozens of political executions, and is using the fog of war to carry out an extensive brutal campaign against Iran’s ethnicities, including Kurds and Baluchs.
The responsibility of the international community to act
The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns these brutal acts and demands immediate, effective intervention by the United Nations and international human rights organizations to halt executions in Iran.
The United Nations Security Council, the European Union, and its member states should intervene to stop these criminal executions. The international community’s silence is viewed by the ruling mullahs as a green light to continue their daily slaughter. The Iranian Resistance reiterates the urgent necessity of referring the regime’s horrific human rights dossier to the UN Security Council to ensure that the perpetrators of 47 years of massacres and crimes against humanity face justice.
The orchestration of these executions aims to instill fear and impose collective punishment on a deeply restless society. However, executing Iran’s honorable and proud youth will not save this moribund religious fascism. Instead these killings will only double the resolve of rebellious youths in fighting this illegitimate regime and redouble the anger of the Iranian people.
Ultimately, these daily hangings are not a demonstration of power. They are the desperate, futile attempts of a severely weakened regime seeking to silence a nation. It only belies the regime’s profound fear of an increasingly restive society—one that no longer fears standing up and confronting the apparatus of repression.