The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the largest Iranian opposition coalition, announced that amid the continuing broad wave of executions in Iran, at least 285 prisoners were executed in October 2025 — an unprecedented figure in recent decades that makes this one of the most severe waves of executions in the twenty-first century.
This number is about 1.7 times higher than October 2024 (171 executions) and more than three times higher than October 2023 (92 executions); it also far exceeds the figures for October in 2022 and 2021, when roughly 30 executions were reported in each of those months.
In the first ten months of 2025, at least 1,471 executions were recorded, more than double the same period last year (703 executions). Among those executed during this period were 45 women, and some executions were carried out publicly and in open spaces.
According to published reports, executions were concentrated in the final days of October and the beginning of November:
- § On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Ehsan Mahdipur was executed, and the day before (10 Aban — which corresponds to November 1, 2025) Mitra Zamani, a female prisoner, was hanged in Khorramabad.
- § On Thursday, October 30, Amirhossein Zahedi, age 21, was executed in Mashhad, and Saeed Piri was executed in Kermanshah.
- § On Wednesday, October 29, sixteen prisoners were executed in various locations including Mashhad, Kerman, Ghezel Hesar, Baft, Taybad, Zanjan, and Gonbad Kavus.
- § On October 27 and 28, further groups of prisoners were hanged in cities such as Sari, Bojnurd, Gorgan, Ahvaz, Borujerd, Zanjan, Yasuj, Yazd, Nahavand, Qazvin, Semnan, and Malayer.
- § In the days before that, several other mass executions were reported in Rasht, Isfahan, Dorud, Hamedan, Kashan, and Aligudarz.
Among those executed, there are reported cases of sentences carried out against individuals who are said to have been under eighteen at the time of the alleged offenses, and some executions were described as “public acts.” Human rights activists and international observers have repeatedly warned about the rising trend of executions and the use of the death penalty in an expanding range of cases; this situation raises serious questions about compliance with criminal justice standards, transparency of trials, and the right to independent legal defense.
This wave of executions is not merely a narrow legal issue but part of broader repressive policies that have profound consequences for Iranian society and the country’s human rights standing.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) asserted that dealing, negotiating, or conciliating with the “godfather of executions and terror” amounts to fueling the crime-and-killing machine of the religious fascism ruling Iran. The NCRI said this bloodthirsty regime should be ostracized by the international community and that Ali Khamenei and its other leaders should face justice for forty-six years of crimes against humanity and genocide.
