On the morning of Monday, May 25, the Iranian regime’s executioners sent another brave, rebellious youth to the gallows. Abbas Akbari Faizabadi, a courageous son of the people of Nain who actively participated in the nationwide January uprisings, was executed on heavily fabricated charges. The judiciary condemned him for “Moharebeh” (waging war against God), destroying public property, and assembly and collusion against internal security.
In a desperate bid to legitimize this state-sanctioned murder, the regime labeled Akbari as an “armed leader” of the Nain protests, alleging that he used a handgun alongside other protesters to attack the county governor’s office and fire at security guards.
The imperative for international accountability
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), praised the brave rebels who have shaken the pillars of religious fascism. She emphasized that the execution of Iran’s proud youth fails to save the moribund mullahs’ regime; rather, it only redoubles the anger of the Iranian people against their bloodthirsty rulers.
Today, the clerical regime took the life of another rebellious protester, Abbas Akbari Feyzabadi, a courageous son of Naein, executed on charges of "Moharebeh" (enmity against God) stemming from the January 2026 uprising.
Salutations to the rebellious protesters who have shaken…— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) May 25, 2026
Warning that the regime views the silence of the international community as a green light to continue its crimes, Mrs. Rajavi urged the UN Security Council to strongly condemn the incessant executions and take effective measures to stop torture in Iran. She noted that the Iranian people will neither forgive nor forget the regime’s leaders and executioners, assuring that the day is not far off when they will face justice in a free Iran.
A nationwide campaign of state terror and collective punishment**
This latest killing is part of a massive, daily surge of executions designed by the ruling mullahs to instill fear within a deeply restless society. Between May 3 and May 21 alone, at least 22 executions were recorded across cities including Tabriz, Isfahan, Ardabil, and Kermanshah.
The regime is heavily targeting those who participated in recent uprisings. On May 13, authorities hanged 55-year-old Mohammad Abbasi in Ghezel Hesar Prison for his role in the January uprising in Malard. Following brutal torture in Evin Prison’s Ward 209, he was sentenced to death in a sham trial completely devoid of an independent lawyer by the infamous “hanging judge” Abolqasem Salavati. In a staggering display of collective punishment, Abbasi’s daughter, Fatemeh, was sentenced to 25 years in Evin Prison’s women’s ward.
Oppressed minorities are increasingly falling victim to this state terror. On Thursday, May 21, the judiciary brutally executed two Kurdish political prisoners, Ramin Zeleh and Karim Maroufpour, in Naqadeh Central Prison. Ramin had endured 507 days of detention and legal limbo, facing a trial that lasted only minutes, while Karim had been arrested in April 2021, severely beaten, and held incommunicado.
Similarly, on May 12, Baluch political prisoner Abduljalil Shahbakhsh was executed in Zahedan Prison on fabricated charges inextricably linked to the 2022 Bloody Friday massacre. Just a day prior, extrajudicial killings claimed the lives of four other Baluch compatriots gunned down by Ministry of Intelligence agents.
The Iranian Resistance reiterates the urgent necessity to refer the regime’s human rights dossier to the UN Security Council for 47 years of crimes against humanity and genocide. These daily executions are not a sign of power. Instead, they are a desperate and futile attempt by a weak regime to silence an increasingly restive nation that no longer fears standing up against the apparatus of repression.