On Saturday, January 4, 2025, Iran’s rebellious youth attacked 15 regime targets in different cities in response to 1,000 executions carried out in 2024 and 18 executions on the first day of 2025. Among the targets were building belonging to the regime’s repressive forces, including the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), Basij, and State Security Forces (SSF):
– Six arson attacks at the provincial headquarters of the SSF in Khuzestan Provincial
– An arson attack at a center of fundamentalism and oppression in Mashhad
– An arson attack at the headquarters of the Khomeini foundation in Mashhad
– Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Tehran
– Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Pakdasht, Tehran
– Setting fire to an IRGC Basij base in Karaj
– Setting fire to the Javad-al-Aimmah Basij Command in Eqlid
– Burning images of regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei and former Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani on walls in Masjed Soleiman
– Burning banners of Khomeini and Khamenei in Isfahan
– Burning a billboard for the Ministry of Intelligence’s espionage headquarters in Tehran
In a statement on January 2, The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) wrote, ” In the final phase of his regime, Ali Khamenei is setting new records for crimes and executions to delay his inevitable overthrow. Official records show that the number of executions in 2024 reached 1,000, an unprecedented figure in the past three decades. Considering secret executions, the real number is significantly higher. The executions in 2024 represent nearly a 16% increase compared to the 864 executions recorded in 2023. According to Amnesty International, the number of executions in Iran in 2023 accounted for about 74% of all documented executions worldwide…. 695 executions, accounting for nearly 70% of the total, occurred after late July, under the presidency of Masoud Pezeshkian. On October 9, Pezeshkian defended these brutal executions, mockingly stating: ‘Those who talk about human rights ask why we execute murderers.’”
While 1,000 executions in 2024 represent a significant increase compared to 2023, 47% of last year’s executions occurred in the final three months—a period during which Khamenei faced heavy blows in the region.
The regime seeks to compensate for its failures in regional policies and the growing anger and dissatisfaction of the oppressed people by increasing executions. However, the rebellious youth have shaken the foundations of the regime through hundreds of anti-repression operations.
In dozens of operations, the rebellious youth have targeted the regime’s centers of oppression, IRGC bases, and Basij centers. They have made it clear that the regime’s use of executions will not force them to back down from their struggle for freedom.
They also set fire to symbols of repression, crime, plunder, and espionage in Tehran, Karaj, Shiraz, Isfahan, Shahr-e Kord, Ahvaz, Abadan, Masjed Soleiman, Zahedan, Kerman, Qazvin, Yazd, Eqlid, Mahshahr, Kazerun, Bandar Anzali, Rasht, Lahijan, Semnan, and other cities, striking a blow to the regime’s policy of intimidation and repression.
The fiery responses of the rebellious youth to the regime’s executions take place while the IRGC, in fear of the spread of these actions and an explosion of public anger, is on high security alert.
The desperate regime, witnessing the eruption of the Iranian people’s wrath and uprising after the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, finds no means to contain the rebellion other than executions and intimidation.
In contrast, the activities of the rebellious youth and their fiery responses to executions deliver a message of attack, hope, and victory to the people throughout Iran.