Iran killing spree continues as regime sets new record for 2025 executions, dissident group says

As the United Nations adopted a solution condemning Iran for its execution spree "in the strongest terms," a starring dissident radical released a study accusing Tehran of putting 2,013 Iranians to decease nether President Masoud Pezeshkian betwixt Jan. 1 and Dec. 15 of this year.

The Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) study says this much than doubles the full of 975 executions that the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights counted successful 2024. The U.N. noted that the 2024 fig was the highest recorded since 2015. The group counted a akin full of 1,001 executions successful 2024.

According to MEK documents provided to Fox News Digital, a free-falling Iranian currency, nationwide protests, factional powerfulness struggles, "snapback" U.N. sanctions and fractures among leaders are stoking the summation successful executions. The MEK says that this year’s execution full is the highest recorded since the 1980s.

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Pezeshkian accused the U.S. of a "grave betrayal" astatine the United Nations General Assembly connected Sept. 24, 2025, successful New York City.  (Jeenah Moon/Reuters)

A State Department spokesperson condemned Iran's continued maltreatment of quality rights, telling Fox News Digital that, "We powerfully condemn the Iranian regime’s usage of execution arsenic a instrumentality of governmental repression.  For decades, the authorities has subjected Iranians to torture, forced confessions, and sham trials, resulting successful unlawful executions. Today, guiltless civilians are being utilized arsenic scapegoats for the regime’s subject and economical failures."

The spokesperson continued, "The Trump Administration restored the argumentation of maximum pressure, ending the Biden Administration’s argumentation of announcing fig-leaf sanctions portion handing the authorities billions.  Since January, we person designated dozens of radical and implicit 180 vessels successful Iran’s shadiness fleet to deplete the regime’s coffers."

Behnam Ben Taleblu, the Senior Director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Iran Program, said determination are much steps needed to beryllium taken by Washington. He told Fox News Digital that the U.S. has "been lagging behind" different Western partners who person responded to Iranian quality rights violations with sanctions and different measures, astir precocious Canada, which sanctioned 4 individuals aft a protestation successful the Iranian metropolis Mashhad successful December.

"The deficiency of applicable measures to enactment the Iranian radical is simply a strategical ain goal," Taleblu said. 

Taleblu noted that Iran "arrested implicit 21,000 people" pursuing the 12-Day War successful June, alongside a "political repression that is adjacent overmuch much expansive than ever before." He said that the Islamic Republic "understands however anemic it is," and immoderate efforts to look much socially lenient, including regarding hijab laws, are an effort to "retain their oligarchic governmental presumption successful a post-Khamenei Iran."

A presumption of the entranceway of Evin situation successful Tehran, Iran Oct. 17, 2022. (Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)

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Noting the anterior Trump administration’s beardown stance connected Iran, Taleblu says that "it surely tin bash amended overmuch much cheaply and much outgo efficaciously than it thinks." Taleblu said that 1 "simple" messaging strategy volition contiguous itself successful March during President Trump’s Nowruz address, erstwhile helium tin "give an homage to the astir pro-American, the astir pro-Israeli colonisation successful the heartland of the Muslim Middle East."

He added, "The imperative for Washington to enactment Iranian protesters… stands," Taleblu said. "But that should beryllium a changeless successful U.S. overseas policy, fixed the disposition of the Iranian street, which is astir wholly against the Iranian state. U.S. quality rights argumentation towards Iran should not beryllium constricted to simply having societal media accounts that are the stenographers for Iran's diminution into failed authorities status." 

The MEK has urged U.S. policymakers to admit the Iranian people’s close to defy and overthrow the regime, which they assertion is the lone means for eliminating the country’s theocracy.

On Dec. 10, the European Parliament marked International Human Rights Day by calling for the satellite to instrumentality enactment against Iran connected relationship of its execution campaign. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, addressed the parliament with her concerns that Iran is attempting to crush dissent. She urged that "all relations with the authorities indispensable beryllium conditioned connected the halt of executions," with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence placed "on the violent list."

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Nooses with reddish roses are displayed during the Anglo-Iranian assemblage rally to enactment the Iranian people's propulsion for a caller revolution. Members of the Anglo-Iranian community, on with supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), commemorated the 45th day of the gyration successful Iran that saw the overthrow of the Shah's authorities and yet fto to a theocratic Islamic republic successful 1979.  (Loredana Sangiuliano/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Among those sentenced to decease is Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old technologist and parent who the MEK accidental was fixed her condemnation aft a "sham 10-minute trial… without her chosen ineligible representation." MEK documents accidental Tabari was arrested due to the fact that she held a banner speechmaking "Woman, Resistance, Freedom."

The full fig of executions successful Iran has doubled since October. At the time, the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said that Iran was murdering up to 9 prisoners each day, which they called an "unprecedented execution spree."  In response, decease enactment prisoners staged a hunger strike.

Iran's ngo to the United Nations did not connection remark connected the report.