Iran Reportedly Executing Political Prisoners As War With Israel And U.S. Rages On
Iran has executed four political prisoners in the last week as it continues to crack down on dissent during the war against the U.S. and Israel.
Iran executed four members of the political opposition this week in a move critics contend is the theocratic regime's attempt to stifle and intimidate potential opposition, according to a new report.
In the last week, four members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) were executed, the New York Post detailed. The regime said the men were convicted of crimes committed during protests in January.
"They were chivalrous men who did not bow to any torture or pressure and stood firm on their pledge and covenant until the very end," Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in a statement to Reuters.
On Monday, the organization said that Babak Alipour, 34, a law graduate, and Pouya Ghobadi, 32, an electrical engineer, were hanged. The day before, two other men, Ali Akbar Daneshvar Kar and Mohammad Taghavi, were executed.
In the first week of January, tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets in Iran to protest the regime. Those protests ended in bloodshed, with thousands of protestors were killed by regime forces.
U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency has said at least 7,000 people were killed in the crackdown. Some reporting has placed the death toll of protestors much higher. Iran International reported that the true number of Iranian civilians killed in the massacres was over 36,000, with most of the killings happening on January 8 and January 9 after internet access within Iran was cut off.
Overall, executions in Iran for the first quarter of the year are down, according to the human rights organization Hengaw. The organization reported that at least 160 people had been executed in Iran in the first three months of the year, compared to 233 executions over the same time period in 2025.
However, the organization also noted that at least 12 political or ideological prisoners were executed in that time frame. Eight of those executions happened in the last few weeks following the start of the war launched by Israel and the U.S. against the regime.
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