Red Meat Consumption In Iran Has Fallen Below 600,000 Tons Per Year
Poverty Has Removed Meat Consumption from Tables in Iran
An analysis of global data shows that the people of Iran, due to the Iranian regime’s bankrupt economic policies, rank at the bottom of global meat-consumption levels.
Analytical reports based on data from international organizations show that per-capita meat consumption in Iran has fallen to one of the lowest levels globally. While many countries have stable access to adequate animal protein, people in Iran—under economic pressure and the regime’s destructive policies—have been forced to remove meat from their diets.
Indonesia To Auction Seized Iranian Oil Tanker Carrying 1.2 Million Barrels of Crude Oil
The Indonesian prosecutor’s office announced that starting December 2, it will launch an auction to sell an Iranian oil tanker and its massive crude oil cargo. The case began after the ship’s captain was convicted of “marine pollution and illegal oil transfer.”
The Jakarta Globe, citing the Indonesian prosecutor’s office, reported that the tanker MT Arman 114, flying the Iranian flag, will be auctioned along with 166,975 tons of light crude oil (equivalent to 1.2 million barrels).
IRGC Seizes Oil Tanker in Persian Gulf WatersThe starting value of the auction has been set at about USD 70 million, and bidders must pay USD 7 million as a participation deposit.
The Marine Pollution Case and the Confiscation Order
The spokesperson for the Indonesian prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday, November 23, that the auction includes both the vessel and its oil cargo. The Arman 114 tanker, built in South Korea in 1997, was seized under an order issued by the Batam district court and transferred to state ownership. In July 2023, the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency announced that the vessel had tampered with its automatic identification system (AIS) to show its position as being in the Red Sea while it was actually in the North Natuna Sea. According to this state agency, the Egyptian captain, twenty-eight crew members, and three passengers on the tanker were arrested at the time. The seizure followed the captain’s conviction for illegally discharging waste into the sea. He has been sentenced to seven years in prison and fined USD 300,000. Violation: Radar Off and Ship-to-Ship Oil Transfer The investigation began when a patrol from the Indonesian Maritime Security Agency identified two tankers that had turned off their AIS systems and were docked side by side. Drone images showed the two vessels connected by a pipeline. The images also confirmed an oil leak from the Arman 114 into the sea. According to the Indonesian prosecutor’s office, the illegal ship-to-ship (STS) oil transfer took place between the Iranian tanker and the Cameroon-flagged tanker MT S Tinos. This is not the first time Indonesia has seized tankers carrying Iranian oil for maritime violations, but the simultaneous auction of both the vessel and its large cargo makes this case one of Jakarta’s most significant actions against Iranian tankers in recent years.Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Expands to 55 Prisons on 96th Week
According to reports, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign continued today, November 25, 2025, and with the participation of Birjand Central Prison, the number of prisons joining the hunger-strike campaign reached fifty-five. The participating prisons, in their statement, voiced support for the protests of families of death-row prisoners and called on all people to support them.
Text of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” Campaign Statement
With Birjand Central Prison joining, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign expanded to fifty-five prisons in its ninety-sixth week.Iran: 304 Executions in One Month, 1,735 In 2025 So FarThe 96th week of the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign arrives at a time when the repressive apparatus in Iran has escalated executions at an unprecedented pace in order to preserve itself. The expanding scope of executions, the absence of fair trials, and the systematic use of executions as a tool for intimidation constitute a blatant violation of fundamental human rights and a clear example of crimes against humanity. This week, Birjand Central Prison joined the 54 other prisons sending the message of “No to Executions” from behind prison walls. This week, the passage of the seventy-second United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Iran recognized two decisive legal truths: 1: recognition of the 1988 massacre and concern over its recurrence 2: condemnation of the unprecedented pace of executions and the regime’s use of executions as an instrument of intimidation and repression Nevertheless, the regime continues its executions and killings. The death sentence issued for Mohammad-Mehdi Soleimani—one of those arrested during the 2022 uprising—is not an exception but part of a consistent pattern of eliminating protesters through a politically driven and invalid judicial process. Between October 23 and November 21 alone, there were 311 executions, a number unprecedented since the 1988 massacre. Additionally, 59 people have been executed since last week, and 1,479 people have been executed since March 21. The families of prisoners sentenced to death, despite threats, summons, arrests, and security pressures, continue to stand in the streets week after week to defend the lives of their loved ones. This protest requires widespread support from the public and the international community. On Tuesday, November 25, the “No to Executions Tuesdays” campaign entered its 96th week, with prisoners in fifty-five prisons across the country participating in a hunger strike.
Iran: 304 Executions in One Month, 1,735 In 2025 So Far
Executions by Iran’s regime have reached an unprecedented level. According to reports, at least 304 prisoners were executed in various prisons across the country between October 23 and November 21 (the Persian month of Aban); a figure that is assessed to be the highest monthly number of executions in the past thirty-seven years. Observers say this sudden and relentless surge in executions is the regime’s response to growing concerns about the formation of social protests and a popular uprising.
According to officially reported figures, 36 prisoners were executed over four days from Monday, November 17 to Thursday, November 20; in other words, during that period roughly one execution was carried out every ninety minutes. The executions continued on November 22 as well, and at least eight more prisoners were hanged in the prisons of Kermanshah, Karaj, Khorramabad, Borujerd, Hamedan, and Sari.
Life Of Political Prisoner Ehsan Faridi Is in Danger
A look at monthly execution statistics in Iran
According to data from the Iran Human Rights Society (an Iran-focused human rights organization), executions have been rising at an unprecedented rate since March 21, 2025 (Farvardin 1 in the Iranian calendar). Thus, the total number of executions from March 21, 2025 to the present has exceeded 1,470. At the same time, the tally for the calendar year is also notable: the website Sedaye Bazdasht Shodegan Iran (Voices of the Arrested in Iran), an activist monitoring site, has reported that approximately 1,735 executions have been recorded in the country so far in 2025. The reports by this organization are based on field documentation and information obtained from inside prisons, courts, and prisoners’ families. The data also indicate that a significant portion of the executions were carried out in provinces such as Khorasan, Azerbaijan, Semnan, Yazd, Hamedan, and Zanjan, and that many of the victims were put to death shortly after sentencing, without public notification and without full access to the ability to defend themselves. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement warning about the wave of executions and stressed that the accelerating implementation of death sentences is not a sign of strength but a clear reflection of the regime’s fear of the recurrence of widespread popular protests. The council emphasized that “Silence, inaction, and dealing and negotiating with the godfather of execution and terrorism in the 21st century violate the universal principles of human rights, which were achieved at the cost of millions of victims. This regime must be ostracized from the international community, and its ringleaders must be brought to justice for nearly five decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.” The increase in executions in Iran continues despite repeated warnings from international bodies, UN special rapporteurs, and dozens of human rights organizations about widespread violations of prisoners’ rights, lack of fair trials, and the use of execution as a tool of political repression. Nevertheless, the new information indicates that Iran’s regime has turned the enforcement of death sentences into a more central component of its domestic security policy than before.Life Of Political Prisoner Ehsan Faridi Is in Danger
A group of political prisoners involved in the “Tuesdays No to Execution” campaign in Ghezel Hesar Prison warned in a letter that the life of Ehsan Faridi, a twenty-two-year-old student and political prisoner sentenced to death, is in serious danger.
The letter states that Faridi is “yet another victim of the regime’s brutality, which has intensified after the twelve-day war.”
The signatories of the letter described Faridi’s arrest process as “illegal,” his trial as “unfair,” and his appeal hearing as entirely “formalistic,” warning that his life is in grave danger.
These prisoners described the confirmation of Faridi’s death sentence as “an alarm bell” for all human rights activists and urged them, given the situation, to organize “serious and widespread activity” to “save the life of this innocent human being” and other death-row prisoners.
Iran’s Regime Continue Execution Spree With 13 Hangings in Four DaysMahmoud Behzadi-Rad, Faridi’s lawyer, said on October 22 that he submitted a request for retrial on October 14, it was sent to the branch on October 15, and was rejected at 12:50 p.m. The attorney added: “They probably did not even read my eight-page retrial request. I suspect they are dismissing many cases without attention at the end of the month to raise statistics so that benefits will be given to the staff of that branch.” In the rest of their letter, the prisoners of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign emphasized the need to bring the voices of death-row prisoners to public attention: “We must all be the voice of the voiceless, and we must not stop our efforts until this cruel death sentence is abolished and all innocent convicts are saved.” In conclusion, these prisoners called on all freedom-seekers not to remain indifferent to the confirmation of Faridi’s death sentence and to bring his story of innocence to the world. Faridi was first arrested in March 2024 by the Intelligence Organization of Iran’s police force and was released on bail some time later. In June 2024, when he went to Branch 15 of the Tabriz Prosecutor’s Office for questioning, he was arrested again and transferred to prison. This political prisoner was sentenced to death in February 2025 by Ali Sheikhlou, head of Branch Three of the Tabriz Revolutionary Court. The sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court at least three times. On November 12, Faridi’s family announced in an Instagram video that they had met their son behind the bars of the prison visit area. Parvin Hayati, the mother of this political prisoner, wrote in the caption of the video: “As a mother, I have a question. Is the place of Ehsan and others like him behind prison bars? And for what crime such a sentence?” Alireza Faridi, his father, also said in an interview: “The prosecutor who drafted the indictment, Seyed Ali Mousavi-Aghdam, was later dismissed for forming a corruption ring. How can my son be sentenced to ‘corruption on earth’ based on an indictment issued by someone removed for corruption? My son does not deserve such a sentence.” At present, in addition to prisoners convicted of non-political crimes who are hanged daily in Iran’s prisons, about 70 prisoners across the country with political charges are at risk of confirmation or implementation of their death sentences. More than 100 others with similar charges are facing the risk of receiving death sentences.
Tehran Advances Nuclear Weapons Program with Covert Russian Assistance
The news outlet Ynet, citing intelligence reports, wrote that Iran’s regime is secretly advancing its nuclear weapons program with direct and covert assistance from the Russian government.
According to this report, published on Sunday, November 23, a delegation affiliated with the Ministry of Defense of Iran’s regime visited a Russian military technology company that is on the U.S. sanctions list.
Western Powers Submit Resolution to Clarify IAEA Reporting on Iran’s Nuclear ProgramYnet added that the purpose of the cooperation between Tehran and Moscow is “to complete the final stage” of the regime’s plan to “design a nuclear weapon.” According to Ynet, Iran’s regime is using laser technology and modeling—with covert Russian help—to validate nuclear weapon design without testing, making international monitoring more difficult. In recent months, reports have emerged about Russia’s role in advancing the nuclear program of Iran’s regime. The state-run Financial Times reported on November 19 that individuals involved in Iran’s nuclear program traveled to Russia secretly for the second time last year—an action that, according to the United States, was an attempt to obtain sensitive technologies that could be used in producing nuclear weapons. According to the report, regime operatives met during the trip with representatives of the Russian company Laser Systems. This Russian company, which works in technologies with civilian uses as well as classified military projects, has been sanctioned by Washington. Ynet further wrote that cooperation between Iran’s regime and Russia could shorten the time needed for Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons. Earlier in August, the Financial Times had reported on a trip by an Iranian delegation to Russia and visits to scientific institutions there.
Iran’s Regime Builds Structure Resembling Nuclear Explosives ChamberU.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated in recent months that following U.S. strikes on the Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan sites during the twelve-day war, the nuclear program of Iran’s regime has been destroyed. Nevertheless, speculation continues about the fate of the regime’s nuclear program, especially its stockpiles of enriched uranium. The recent reports from Ynet and the state-run Financial Times together depict ongoing nuclear cooperation between Tehran and Moscow. This phase relies on laser technologies, modeling, and dual-use components that, according to these sources, can be used in nuclear weapons research and could shorten the regime’s path toward completing nuclear weapon design. Iran’s regime has never stopped pursuing its nuclear project, and if it were not for 133 revelations by the National Council of Resistance of Iran over the past thirty-four years—especially the exposure of the secret nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak in August 2002—the religious dictatorship ruling Iran would already be armed with a nuclear bomb. On July 14, 2015, after the nuclear agreement between Iran’s regime and global powers, Maryam Rajavi, the elected President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said: “Had the P5+1 been more decisive, the Iranian regime would have had no choice but to fully retreat from and permanently abandon its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Specifically, it would have been compelled to halt all uranium enrichment and completely shut down its bomb-making projects.… The P5+1 should now insist on evicting the regime from the Middle East and prevent its regional meddling. This is a fundamental principle that needs to be included in any agreement.”
Tehran, Mashhad, And Kerman in Emergency Status as Iran’s Water Crisis Deepens
The water crisis in Iran has reached a stage where several provinces, including Tehran, Mashhad, and Kerman, are facing emergency conditions and, in some cases, “de facto rationing.” In the capital, the deputy head of Tehran’s Regional Water Company says the province’s dams have reached their “strategic volume.”
Rama Habibi, deputy head of Tehran’s Regional Water Company, announced on Saturday, November 22, that the reservoirs of the capital’s dams have reached a level where further extraction could endanger the safety of the dams and the supply network.
U.S. State Dept: Iran’s Water Crisis Is Result of Decades of Regime MismanagementHe said: “I cannot say that Tehran’s dams have reached their dead volume, but they are almost at a level below which it is considered strategic volume, and this volume must remain in the dam.” According to Habibi, none of the capital’s dams have yet been taken offline, but some have reached levels where even technically extracting water from them is no longer possible. “Strategic volume” refers to the portion of a reservoir’s stored water that is reserved for crisis management during severe droughts or floods and is not permitted for daily consumption. According to official statistics, Tehran is now experiencing its sixth consecutive year of drought. The water level of the Latian Dam has reached its lowest point in sixty years, and the Karaj Dam is at less than 10% of its capacity. As a result, 70% of Tehran’s water now comes from groundwater sources—sources already heavily strained, with many aquifers on the verge of land subsidence.
Water pressure management in Tehran
Isa Bozorgzadeh, spokesperson for Iran’s water industry, announced that “water pressure management” remains one of the main tools of the Ministry of Energy to delay the water crisis in the capital, and reduced water pressure continues across various districts of Tehran. Bozorgzadeh said that pressure reduction is applied from midnight until the early morning hours, when consumption is lower, and continues with less intensity during the day. He warned that if citizens do not respond to the Ministry of Energy’s request to reduce consumption by 10%, pressure management may extend beyond the current time window into other hours of the day.Sharp decline in rainfall; twenty provinces without precipitation
Mohammad Javanbakht, head of Iran’s Water Resources Management Company, announced that in the past fifty days only 3.5 millimeters of rainfall have been recorded nationwide, an amount equal to just 18% of the normal average. According to him, twenty provinces have received no rainfall at all, and the last water year was Iran’s fifth consecutive dry year. Javanbakht said: “Last year, Tehran and Bandar Abbas experienced the driest period in their operational history.” A 40% decrease in precipitation has left the country’s dams with the lowest water levels in more than a decade.Mashhad: start of rationing and depletion of dam reserves
Nasrollah Pejmanfar, head of Article 90 Commission in Iran’s regime parliament, announced on November 21 that in Mashhad “the Doosti Dam no longer has water to transfer, and the water of Mashhad’s dams has reached zero.” He confirmed that the metropolis is now under rationing. Pejmanfar attributed the water shortage to “mismanagement and the absence of watershed and aquifer management,” stating that the country’s drainage basins have a capacity of about 400 billion cubic meters, but much of this water leaves the country due to lack of planning.Kerman: collapse of qanats and “gradual death” in one of the driest provinces
Field reports from Kerman Province depict a picture of gradual collapse of life in the region. Qanats are drying up, groundwater has turned bitter and salty, orchards and farmlands have been destroyed, and a large portion of wildlife faces extinction. In many areas, water flows only through worn-out pumps, while excessive consumption in household and agricultural sectors continues. Experts say that continued flood irrigation, crop patterns mismatched with the climate, and excessive extraction from aquifers have pushed the situation to the level of an “ecosystem death.”Drought, mismanagement, or a combination of both?
Although many officials attribute the crisis primarily to drought, water resource experts believe mismanagement, unregulated urban expansion, excessive development pressure, and a lack of consumption management planning play the key roles. Excessive extraction from thousands of wells around Tehran, massive water loss in the distribution network, expansion of construction colonies, widespread issuance of permits for new settlements, and the minimal use of modern technologies in consumption management all contribute to the worsening crisis. Water experts stress that continuing the current trend could make water supply impossible for 30% to 50% of Tehran’s population within five to ten years. Some have also warned that if effective rainfall does not occur in the coming winter, the country may enter a broader phase of rationing and even “localized evacuation” of certain areas.Fire In One of Oldest Forests in the World Uncontained After 21 Days
More than twenty-one days have passed since the fire began in the Elit forest in northern Iran. Local sources report an extremely widespread blaze. Local residents have been trying for days to contain the fire with very limited resources.
The reality is that over the past six decades, more than half of the Hyrcanian forests have been destroyed for various reasons, and the recent fires are yet another recurring point on a long map of devastation. The Hyrcanian forests stretch along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and are among the world’s oldest broadleaf forests.
Air Pollution in Several Major Iranian Cities May Reach Dangerous LevelsOne local resident told reporters: “On the third day of the fire, the teams present were told that a helicopter was needed, but in response they said you are trying to cause public anxiety and are exaggerating the issue.” This shows that Iran’s regime has responded with complete indifference to these fires and lacks even the most basic equipment. Amid the ongoing widespread forest fires across Iran, reports indicate that the Dizmār forests in Jolfa County, located in East Azerbaijan Province near Iran’s northwest border, have been burning for three days. Iranian media reported on Sunday, November 23, that a severe fire in the protected Dizmār area of Jolfa County—near Ali-Abad-Bolaghi and the village of Namnaq—began on the evening of November 21 and has still not been extinguished. Mohammad-Hossein Hassanzadeh, director-general of the Environmental Protection Office of East Azerbaijan Province, said that three valleys in the area are burning simultaneously and that strong winds have made firefighting efforts extremely difficult. He added that a helicopter has been requested from the Environmental Protection Organization, but it is still unclear when the equipment will be dispatched to the area. Hassanzadeh continued: “The area is rugged and consists of deep valleys, and transporting equipment there is impossible. Therefore, crews are forced to extinguish the fire using manual tools. Unfortunately, the wind is strong, and if this weather condition continues, it will not be good.” Majid Farshi, director-general of crisis management for East Azerbaijan Province, told the state-run ISNA news agency on November 23 that the fire in the rangelands and forests of Namnaq village in Jolfa County is ongoing. This comes while the Hyrcanian forests in the north of the country are also still burning after twenty-one days. Despite repeated promises from government officials regarding the dispatch of assistance and equipment, images circulating on social media show citizens still risking their lives using simple, personal tools to contain the forest fires in the Elit region. Experts believe that the continuation of this fire could inflict irreversible damage on one of Iran’s most important natural reserves. Meanwhile, the government’s inability to contain the fire has sparked a wave of public dissatisfaction and criticism. In recent days, social media users have criticized the incompetence of officials, the regime’s chronic disregard for the environment, and the lack of accountability. The Elit forests fall under the jurisdiction of the Natural Resources Office of Mazandaran–Nowshahr, an area with more than 660,000 hectares of forest, rangeland, and coastline, covering 28% of Mazandaran Province. The Chalus highlands near the village of Elit are among the most sensitive parts of the Hyrcanian forests, which—being among the oldest forests in the world—are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The simultaneous spread of fires in the Hyrcanian and Dizmār forests has once again exposed Iran’s regime’s weak crisis management and lack of specialized equipment for protecting the country’s natural resources. Environmental activists warn that if adequate resources and effective equipment are not provided promptly, the destruction of Iran’s forests will accelerate. The nation’s natural assets are burning more each day, and there is still no sign of fully containing these fires.
Iran’s Power Plants Burning Mazut Despite Ongoing Air Pollution
The state-run Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reported that the use of mazut has begun in Iran’s power plants, adding that the Mofatteh, Salimi, and Shazand power plants hold the record for consuming this highly polluting fuel. (Fars is one of Iran’s major state-run media outlets linked to the IRGC.)
Fars reported on Sunday, November 23, that mazut consumption reached more than 21 million liters per day on November 14. The length of the tanker trucks required to transport such a volume of mazut would reach 14 kilometers.
Use Of Mazut in Iranian Power Plants Due to Gas ShortageLast year, due to a shortage of natural gas, mazut consumption in Iran reached a record high. According to Fars, the Hamedan, Neka (located in Mazandaran province), and Arak power plants have the highest mazut consumption in the country. About ten days earlier, Abbas Aliabadi, Iran’s regime energy minister, had said that there are 14 mazut-burning power plants across the country and that if “the weather becomes very cold and gas supplies decrease,” the government would burn mazut to generate electricity. Without acknowledging the impact of this fuel on air pollution and public health, he said: “We are not interested in burning mazut because it damages the power plants and mazut is an expensive commodity. We would prefer to turn it into a product, but in case of a gas shortage, we are forced to burn mazut.” Officials in Masoud Pezeshkian’s government have repeatedly promised to stop mazut burning in Iran’s power plants and replace it with clean fuel. Fatemeh Mohajerani, the government spokesperson, wrote in a post on X in November 2024 that for a limited period, “scheduled blackouts” could replace “producing poison” for the public. These remarks came shortly after the summer blackouts of that same year and coincided with the beginning of gas outages for citizens. At that time, Iran’s state-run news agencies announced that by order of Pezeshkian, the regime’s president, mazut burning would be stopped at the Arak, Karaj, and Isfahan power plants. Despite the promise to halt mazut burning, it continued. In some regions, air pollution became so severe that residents took to the streets in protest. In Arak, the protests continued until March 2025. Three months after the announcement of the order to halt mazut burning, in February 2025, Somayeh Rafiei, spokesperson for the Agriculture Committee of the regime’s parliament, stated that all thermal power plants in the country had turned to burning mazut. The state-run Tejarat News website reported in August that contrary to previous promises by officials of the Iranian regime, mazut burning has become an “official and reliable” option for the government in managing the energy crisis, and this practice was ongoing even last year.
Deteriorating Conditions of Two Political Prisoners in Iran
Reports from Lakan Prison in Rasht indicate that two political prisoners on death row, Manouchehr Fallah and Peyman (Amin) Farahavar, are struggling with the growth of unidentified tumors, severe pain, and extreme weight loss, while prison authorities continue to refuse to transfer them to specialized medical facilities. Families and informed sources have warned of an immediate threat to their lives. For non-Iranian readers: Rasht is the capital of Gilan Province in northern Iran, and Lakan Prison is known for holding many political detainees.
These two prisoners have been sentenced to death on charges of supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the largest opposition group to Iran’s regime.
According to the Telegram channel shoureshgarane, at least eighteen individuals are currently under death sentences on the same charge.
Hunger Strike by Three Political Prisoners in Lakan Prison, Rasht
