Iran, more than 250 people executed since Massoud Pezeshkian became president

ROMA – Iran has executed more than 250 people since Massoud Pezeshkian took office as president last July. We learn this from the website Hands off Cain. As the Iranian regime continues to increase executions, on October 8, 2024 the “No to Tuesday executions” has entered its 37th week, with inmates from 22 prisons across the country joining, coinciding with the next World Day Against the Death Penalty.

The accusations of “rebellion” that lead to the gallows. Prisoners who participated in the campaign stated that: “In an attempt to prevent public protests, the regime executed 30 people in various prisons across the country on October 1 and 2, including three women. A death row prisoner named Mahmoud Dehmordeh died of a heart attack in Zabol Prison due to lack of medical care.” The statement adds: “Last week, a political prisoner named Hamid Hosseinnejad Heidaranloo was sentenced to death by the Urmia Revolutionary Tribunal. He was arrested in April 2023 and sentenced to death on charges of ‘rebellion’, and his life is in danger.”

Since March 2024, 450 people have been hanged. Since the beginning of the year 1403 of the Persian calendar (March 2024), almost 450 people have been executed. The campaign “No to Tuesday executions” calls on independent political, civil and human rights organizations, both national and international, to support the campaign to save the lives of those sentenced to death in Iran. It also urges the global community to hold the leaders of this regime accountable for more than four decades of crimes against humanity, including the massacre and execution of prisoners.”

No sign of slowing down the penalty of doors. The 37th week of the campaign “No to executions” took place while the regime shows no signs of slowing down in its use of the death penalty. The number of executions recorded since July, when Massoud Pezeshkian took office as president of the regime, amounts to at least 255. Pezeshkian, who has been presented as a reformist by apologists of the regime and supporters of the policy of appeasement towards Tehran, has demonstrated that human rights conditions will only worsen under his presidency. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, declared that as long as this regime is in power, torture and executions in Iran will not cease, nor war and terror in the region, which will not see peace and tranquility.