On Thursday morning, April 2, 2026, the Iranian regime committed yet another heinous crime by executing 18-year-old Amirhossein Hatami in Tehran. A courageous and rebellious youth, Hatami was a participant in the massive December 2025–January 2026 nationwide uprisings that brought the clerical establishment to its knees. Arrested by the IRGC Intelligence Organization, Hatami was sentenced to death on fabricated charges of “Moharebeh” (waging war against God) and “corruption on earth” by the notorious executioner Judge Abolghasem Salavati in Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
The regime’s judiciary news agency, Mizan, claimed that during the January uprising, Hatami attacked a classified military location, alleging he explicitly confessed his goal was “to overthrow the regime” and find firearms. Hatami’s execution raises immediate alarm for four other uprising prisoners—Mohammad Biglari, Ali Fahim, Abolfazl Salehi, and Shahin Vahed-Parast—who were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hesar Prison alongside him on March 31.
Highlighting the political significance of this brutality, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), stated: “The criminal execution of the 18-year-old Amirhossein Hatami, a courageous rebellious youth, is yet another sign of the ruling religious fascism’s desperation in the face of public anger, and the regime’s fear of a growing uprising aimed at its overthrow. These consecutive executions must be condemned by the international community and addressed by the UN Security Council.”
The criminal execution of the 18-year-old Amirhossein Hatami, a courageous rebellious youth, is yet another sign of the ruling religious fascism’s desperation in the face of public anger, and the regime’s fear of a growing uprising aimed at its overthrow.
I call on the… pic.twitter.com/GsXn3A7GkC— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 2, 2026
A systematic campaign of terror against
Hatami’s hanging is not an isolated incident. It caps off a brutally bloody week in which the regime also executed four dedicated members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). On March 30, Mohammad Taghavi, 59, and Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, 59, were sent to the gallows. The very next morning, Babak Alipour, 34, and Pouya Ghobadi, 33, were executed from the exact same case.
Following their arrests in early 2024, they endured months of severe physical and psychological torture in Evin Prison’s notorious Ward 209. Their death sentences were handed down by criminal judge Iman Afshari in Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court following retrial hearings that lasted only minutes and blatantly ignored defense lawyers.
The cruelty culminated on the night of March 29 in Ghezel Hesar prison. Anti-riot guards violently raided the political prisoners’ hall in Ward 4, brutally beating inmates and forcing at least 19—including sick prisoners and those on death row—into solitary confinement just hours before the executions began.
Two more prisoners from the same case, Vahid Bani-Amerian and Abolhassan Montazer, face imminent death by the regime’s executioners.
Preparing for another massacre under the fog of war
These consecutive executions are a profound display of state panic. Reeling from the recent uprisings and the domestic chaos following the February 28 death of supreme leader Ali Khamenei in an airstrike, the paralyzed regime is using the fog of war to purge dissidents and spread terror among the people.
The international community and the UN must take concrete, punitive actions against the regime’s leaders to halt this continuous machinery of death.