Iran Human Rights (IHR) recently reported that they believe that the Iranian regime is ramping up executions in the wake of the US strikes on the Islamic Republic of Iran. According to a CNN report, the Iranian regime has executed at least 47 political prisoners so far this year, a massive increase from 16 around the same time last year. Each of these victims sitting on death row in Iran has a family that is suffering as they await the unjustified execution of their loved one. CNN recently interviewed Niki Nikbakht, who has two brothers, Hadi and Fazlollah, who are sitting on death row in Iran for politically related crimes.
According to information obtained by IHR, political prisoners Hadi and Fazlollah Nikbakht were sentenced to death on charges of efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) by the Golpayegan Revolutionary Court. The two brothers were arrested at their homes in Golpayegan on October 24, 2025, after they attempted to stop authorities from seizing their farmland According to the report, the defendants were accused of mobilizing youth to protest against the authorities. Hadi has two sons and a five-month-old daughter, who never met her father because he was imprisoned by the Iranian regime when her mother was still pregnant. According to CNN, Hadi, 45, and Fazlollah, 50, are just two out of dozens of Iranians sitting on death row in the Islamic Republic right now for politically related crimes that would never land one in prison, much less receive the death penalty, in any Western country.
Ahwaz dissident Hamid Mutashar, who heads the Ahwaz Liberal Party, stressed in a recent interview: “The Iranian regime’s accelerated execution spree in the aftermath of the recent US strikes is a desperate, criminal response, a clear admission of its fear and impending collapse. This is not just a crackdown. It is a violent attempt by a failing regime to silence the voices of liberty through terror.” (Ed note: So President Trump says that the reason he doesn't want to attack Iran is because we might kill innocent civilians. Not to worry, Trump, the Islamic regime of Iran is doing more than you ever could. In fact, more are probably dying because of your delay.) (Read More)
