Throughout its history, the mullahs’ regime has maintained its power through killings. It sees its survival in the death of people in Iran and in the Middle East region. This outdated regime has never had the will nor the intention of responding to the needs of the Iranian people. It tortures and executes to stay alive.
While the regime continues to fan the flames of war in the Middle East, its main goal is to maintain its hold on power at home. This is why in tandem with its warmongering policies, it has resorted to increasing its repressive measures at home.
All reports indicate that there has been a significant uptick in executions in Iran since the beginning of the war in Gaza. According to the official reports by the regime’s judiciary, in the past 10 days alone, the regime has carried out 37 executions.
In the fog of war, the criminal regime of Iran executed several prisoners of conscience as well as prisoners who were underage when they were arrested.
On Thursday, November 30, the regime executed political prisoner Kamran Rezaei, who was arrested during the 2019 nationwide anti-regime protests. Rezaei was hanged in Adel Abad prison, Shiraz, under charges of “waging war against God” (moharebeh), a vaguely defined crime the regime uses to condemn dissidents to death. Rezaei was brutally tortured to make incriminating confessions about killing a member of the criminal Basij, the paramilitary force that is tasked with suppressing protesters.
On Wednesday, November 29, the regime executed Sunni prisoner Ayoub Karimi after 14 years of imprisonment and torture. He was arrested along with six other people in 2009 and were sentenced to death by the notorious judge Mohammad Moghiseh. Ghassem Abesteh, another prisoner from the same group, was executed on November 5. The five remaining prisoners are in Ghezelhesar prison, Karaj, and are under the threat of being executed.
On November 28, the regime executed political prisoner Hani Alboushahbazi under the charge of moharebeh in the Sepidar prison of Ahvaz. Alboushahbazi was also arrested during the 2019 protests and was sentenced to death on charges of moharebeh. On the same day, the regime executed six other prisoners in Ghezelhesar and Ilam prisons. And on November 6, the regime executed five prisoners, including a juvenile offender.
Also in the previous week, the regime secretly executed political prisoner Ali Saber Motlaq in Lakan Prison, Rasht, according to information received from the families of prisoners in this facility. Motlaq, 62, was a longtime supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). He was once arrested and imprisoned in the 1980s due to his support for the PMOI. He was arrested again in 2020 and remained in prison until his execution.
And on November 23, the regime executed Milad Zohrevand, 21, one of the protesters arrested during Iran’s nationwide uprising that began in September 2022. Zohrevand, who hailed from Malayer, western Iran, was injured and arrested by security forces on October 27. After severe torturing Zohrevand, the regime’s criminal judiciary sentenced him to death on charges of killing a member of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) named Ali Nazari.
The bloodthirsty regime thinks that by waging war in the region and killing youths inside Iran, it can delay or stop the next wave of uprisings. But these crimes will only increase the people’s determination to overthrow the regime.
On November 30, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in connection with the criminal executions, stressed that “the mullahs’ regime, in fear of the uprising and simultaneously with its warmongering in the region, has accelerated the execution of prisoners. Khamenei is trying in vain to escape the fire of the people’s anger. Silence in the face of the godfather of execution and slaughter is an encouragement to continue the crime against humanity. The United Nations and the European Union must strongly condemn this regime for its arbitrary executions and take urgent action to save the death-row prisoners, especially political prisoners. The mullahs do not represent the people of Iran and must be expelled from the United Nations.”
