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Iran’s mullahs executed at least 16 inmates to quell escalating anti-regime protests

By Mahmoud Hakamian
Iran - Isfahan - Dastgerd Prison - executions - Saleh Mirhashemi, Saeed Yaghoubi, and Majid Kazemi - May 19, 2023
Iran's regime has exected three inmates in Isfahan - Saleh Mirhashemi, Saeed Yaghoubi, and Majid Kazemi - May 19, 2023

The mullahs’ regime in Iran resorted to executing at least 16 inmates on Thursday as the ruling dictatorship seeks to install fear throughout the country and thus end or at least contain the nation’s escalating protests. Prisons in the cities of Khorramabad, Kerman, Sanandaj, Rasht, and Jiroft saw their authorities send inmates to the gallows yesterday as the mullahs’ regime is growing all the more desperate in the face of a nation that is determined to bring an end to their murderous rule despite all the obstacles and against all odds.

Early Friday morning authorities in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison executed three inmates by the names of Saeed Yaghoubi, Saleh Mir-Hashemi, and Majid Kazemi, according to state media. Amnesty International had issued warnings about their imminent execution. The mullahs’ regime in Iran has executed at least 110 inmates from April 21 to this day. This ruling dictatorship sent at least 576 people to the gallows in 2022, indicating an 83 percent increase in comparison to 2021, according to Amnesty International.

Mohsen Kazemi, the brother of Majid Kazemi, has been abducted by the regime’s security forces outside of Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. Reports indicate that regime authorities have buried Saeed Yaghoubi, an inmate executed early this morning, in Isfahan’s Kord Sofla district.

Reports indicate that authorities in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison executed at least another four inmates early Friday morning, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. The names of these victims are Yaghoub Hassani, Mazhar Davari, Ali Mehrdel, and Kazem Ghafran. They were all sentenced to death on drug-related charges.

Locals in the capital’s Ekbatan, Tehranpars, Apadana, Shahr-e Zeeba, Negin-e Gharb, Chitgar, and Tehransar districts are chanting anti-regime slogans following today’s execution of three inmates in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. Their slogans included:
“Down with Khamenei, the murderer!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”

“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Damned be Khomeini!”
“Down with the youth-killing regime!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we are standing to the end!”

People gathered outside the home of Saeed Yaghoubi, executed early this morning in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison. Authorities are deeply concerned about locals launching anti-regime protests. People at the scene began chanting anti-regime slogans, including “Down with Khamenei!” Night rallies have been reported in various parts of the city as people are demonstrating and chanting anti-regime slogans.

Brave youth in Isfahan attacked the municipality branch of District 11 in this city in response to this morning’s executions.

Locals in the capital’s Sattarkhan, Ekbatan, and Tehranpars districts have launched an anti-regime rally on Friday afternoon and evening, and are chanting “Down with Khamenei, the murderer!” and “Down with the state of executions!” Similar protests are reported in Tehran’s Ekbatan, Nazi Abad, and Sadeghiyeh districts, and Takhti Avenue. Activists reported similar protest gatherings in other cities, such as Karaj, Mashhad, Mahabad, Dehgolan, Golshahr, Bandar Abbas and Podol in Hormozgan Province, and others. Their slogans include:
“Down with Khamenei!”
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with the state of executions!”
“Down with the republic of executions!”
“Khamenei, you murderer! We will bury you!”
“Poverty-Corruption-High prices! We’re going to overthrow the regime!”
“From Isfahan to Tehran, my life for Iran!”
“We swear on the blood of those hanged that we stand to the very end!”
“This is the year Seyed Ali (Khamenei) is overthrown!”

Incoming reports from Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan in western Iran, indicate that authorities have transferred another inmate in Sanandaj Central Prison to solitary confinement in preparation for his execution, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. This week at least four inmates have been executed in this prison alone.

Other such reports indicate four death row inmates in the Qezel Hesar Prison of Karaj, a major city west of Tehran, have been transferred to solitary confinement today in preparation for their executions. Their families are rallying and protesting outside prison, demanding a halt to the execution of their loved ones. Regime security forces have responded by opening fire using shotgun pellet rounds, leaving at least ten women in the crowd wounded. They’ve also fired tear gas at the people outside Qezel Hesar Prison.

People throughout Iran continue to specifically hold the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responsible for their miseries, while also condemning the oppressive the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij units, alongside other security units that are on the ground suppressing the peaceful demonstrators.

Protests in Iran have to this day expanded to at least 282 cities. Over 750 people have been killed and more than 30,000 are arrested by the regime’s forces, according to sources of Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The names of 675 killed protesters have been published by the PMOI/MEK.

Based on reports from inside Iran, at least 16 inmates were executed by the regime’s authorities on Thursday alone, including five in Khorramabad, four in Kerman, two in Sanandaj, two in Rasht, and one in Jiroft. Two inmates in a prison of Kurdistan Province were executed, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.

In other reports, activists are saying authorities in Sanandaj Central Prison, western Iran, executed an inmate by the name of Mostafa Salehi, from the city of Sarvabad in Kurdistan Province. Similar reports from Jiroft of Kerman Province in south-central Iran indicate that a Baluch prisoner by the name of Nader Rigi-Golbache was executed in this city’s prison.

According to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a second inmate was executed on Thursday in Sanandaj Central Prison. At 7:30 am this morning local time, Jamshid Karimi, a young man from the city of Dehgolan and living in Sanandaj, was hanged. His execution was carried out while at 6:30 am an official judiciary order was issued to have the execution stopped and Karimi transferred back to the ward.

The brave locals of Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan & Baluchestan in southeast Iran, have taken to the streets yet again today following their Friday prayers, launching a new round of anti-regime rallies and voicing their protests to today’s three executions in Isfahan. The demonstrators are vowing to continue their struggle against the ruling dictatorship. Their slogans against the ruling mullahs include:
“Basij and IRGC, you are our ISIS!”
“We may be unarmed but we fight like men!”
“We don’t want a state of executions!”
“Your silence is treason and supports [the regime’s] crimes!”
“We swear on the blood of our compatriots that we stand to the end!”
“My martyred brother, I will avenge your blood!”
“100 years of crimes! Down with the [mullahs’ regime]!”
“No to monarchy! No to [mullahs’ regime]! Democracy and equality!”
“Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!”

The protesters were also raising a placard reading “Monarchism – Mullahs’ regime! 100 years of crimes!” as they once reject a return to the monarchial dictatorship that was overthrown during the Iranian people’s 1979 revolution.

People in the city of Arak, central Iran, and the Shahrak-e Bagheri district of the capital Tehran began chanting anti-regime slogans, including “Death to Khamenei!” referring to regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Locals in the city of Junaqan in Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari Province of southwest Iran were holding a ceremony on Thursday marking the memory of Jamshid Mokhtari, killed by the mullahs’ regime during anti-regime protests one year ago today. They were chanting anti-regime slogans, including:
“Down with the dictator!”
“Down with Khamenei!”

A similar ceremony is being held in the city of Bandar Anzali in northern Iran as locals were marking the memory and birthday of Mehran Sammak, a young man killed by the mullahs’ regime.

Bakery owners in Ardabil, northwest Iran, are holding a rally on Thursday protesting the officials’ decision to decrease their flour rations. This is hurting their business and preventing them from providing the necessary amount of bread the locals need to feed their families.

The protests in Iran began following the death of Mahsa Amini. Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the city of Saqqez in Kurdistan Province, western Iran, who traveled to Tehran with her family, was arrested on Tuesday, September 13, at the entry of Haqqani Highway by the regime’s so-called “Guidance Patrol” and transferred to the “Moral Security” agency.

She was brutally beaten by the morality police and died of her wounds in a Tehran hospital on September 16. The event triggered protests that quickly spread across Iran and rekindled the people’s desire to overthrow the regime.

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