In the past Iranian year (March 20, 2024 – March 20, 2025), Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei showcased the precarious position of his regime on the brink of collapse by increasing executions by 42% compared to the previous year.
The regime’s leader, desperate to prevent a nationwide uprising and delay the inevitable downfall of his regime, set a new record for crime and executions in the Iranian year 1403. The number of recorded executions reached 1,153 prisoners, unprecedented in recent years. Of these, 961 executions (83% of the total) occurred during the tenure of Masoud Pezeshkian, who became president in July 2024. Given the secretive and unrecorded nature of many executions, the actual number is likely much higher.
The statistics of recorded executions in the last month of the Iranian year (Esfand, February 19–March 20, 2025), compared to the previous year, clearly demonstrate the regime’s use of execution and intimidation as a tool to preserve its rule.
The number of executions in Esfand 1402 was 21 prisoners; this figure surged to 121 prisoners in Esfand 1403, nearly a six-fold increase.
In this month, the regime, trapped in a deadly impasse and terrified of uprisings, attempted to maintain its hold on power by increasing executions. However, Iran’s rebellious youth responded with 60 operations in a four-stage fiery campaign, lighting the guiding beacon of “Fire answers execution” to break the atmosphere of fear and repression.
On Monday, February 24, 2025, in the first round of Esfand operations, the heroic rebellious youth responded with 15 operations in the cities of Isfahan, Tehran, Mashhad, Zahedan, Hamedan, Saravan, Dezful, Karaj, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Sari, and Bushehr to the 17 executions revealed in the first two days of Esfand (February 19-20) and the 854 executions during Masoud Pezeshkian’s presidency.
Continuing this campaign on Sunday, March 2, 2025, they carried out 15 operations, including: five incendiary attacks on a regime center for executions in Bavi, Khuzestan province; two incendiary attacks on barracks of the suppressive State Security Forces in Kermanshah; two incendiary attacks on a center of fundamentalism, crime, and suppression of women in Kerman; and setting fire to regime bases, centers of crime and suppression, and government symbols, delivering another lesson to the regime’s executioner judiciary.
The third round of the campaign and fiery responses by the rebellious youth took place on March 5, 2025, with 15 operations in the cities of Mashhad, Shush, Tehran, Hashtgerd (Alborz Province), Kerman, Sanandaj, and six incendiary attacks targeting regime centers for plundering public wealth and resources in Miandorud (Mazandaran Province), a regime municipality building in Gohardasht, Karaj, and a center of fundamentalism, crime, and suppression of women in Mashhad.
The fourth round of fiery responses by the heroic rebellious youth to the increase in executions began on Saturday, March 10, 2025, by striking centers of suppression and plundering. In this phase of the campaign, as Khamenei significantly increased executions during Ramadan, the rebellious youth responded to the regime’s leader with the following series of operations:
- Setting fire to a center of fundamentalism and crime in Tehran
- Two incendiary attacks at the Khomeini Relief Committee (a state institution involved in looting public wealth) in Kermanshah
- Two incendiary attacks at IRGC Basij (paramilitary suppressive force) bases in Zarandin, Mazandaran Province
- Attacking an IRGC Basij base in Shiraz
- Setting fire to Basij bases in Mashhad, Sabzevar, Saravan, and Khash
- And setting fire to symbols of the regime’s suppression and crime in several other cities across the country
The inhumane mullahs have based the preservation of their executioner regime and the confrontation of protests and uprisings by the fed-up populace on suppression, intimidation, and execution. In the Iranian year 1403 (March 20, 2024 – March 20, 2025), coinciding with their comprehensive failures, they increased the number of executions. Facing the regime of execution and massacre, the pioneering rebellious youth adopted a strategy of maximum offensive, courageously intensifying their repression-breaking operations throughout occupied Iran.