Tehran Prosecutor Ali Salehi announced that all cases related to the 12-day war, the recent war with the United States, and the January 2026 protests have been finalized and referred to court, with some resulting in final death and prison sentences.
Speaking on Tuesday, July 14, on the sidelines of a ceremony in Tehran, Salehi said these cases had been handled on the orders of the head of Iran’s judiciary and the chief justice of Tehran Province “with precision, speed, decisiveness, and severity,” and that the majority had resulted in verdicts.
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He added that final rulings in some of these cases, including death and prison sentences, have been forwarded to the sentence enforcement authorities and that the convicted individuals are currently serving their punishments.
Salehi had also announced in April the seizure of movable and immovable assets belonging to more than 250 people linked to what he called “counter-revolutionary networks,” but this time he did not disclose the exact number of cases, those convicted, or the nature of the charges.
Official figures had previously provided a clearer picture of the scope of these cases. In late June, Iran’s Attorney General said that more than 200 criminal cases had been opened in special investigative branches of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office. On May 3, the chief justice of Tehran Province also said that during the first 40 days of the war, 85% of the 66,000 cases filed with the province’s judiciary had resulted in verdicts.
According to independent human rights organizations, during the first 65 days following the start of U.S. and Israeli military attacks on February 28, at least 31 executions were recorded, 22 of which (71%) involved political and security prisoners. During the same period the previous year, only seven of 191 executions involved this group.
According to the same report, published in May, the Tehran Revolutionary Court accounted for the largest share of these cases with at least 12 death sentences. Two judges, Iman Afshari and Abolghasem Salavati, issued the highest numbers of death sentences, with at least seven and five respectively. A significant portion of these sentences was handed down against protesters arrested during the January protests.
Iran Human Rights, an independent human rights organization, said in its six-month report that at least 370 people were executed in Iran during the first half of 2026, including 21 who were hanged during the 12 days of war.
Following the ceasefire in late March, officials of the Iranian regime accelerated the implementation of death sentences, and at least 101 people were executed in June alone.
