The U.S. State Department, noting that Iran’s regime uses executions to instill fear and silence dissent, stated that the world cannot turn a blind eye to the executions taking place in Iran.
تنها در ماه نوامبر، رژیم جمهوری اسلامی دستکم ۲۶۰ نفر را اعدام کرد؛ رقمی که بالاترین تعداد اعدامها در دو دهه اخیر است. با این حال، رژیم جمهوری اسلامی به صورت رسمی تنها دو اعدام را اعلام کرد. امسال، بیش از ۱۵۰۰ نفر در ایران بدون هیچ یا با حداقل روند دادرسی جان خود را از دست داده… pic.twitter.com/73Wsx91hpS
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The U.S. State Department emphasized in its statement: “The United States stands with the people of Iran and will continue to condemn these horrific violations.”
The statement said: “In November alone Iran executed at least 260 people, the highest monthly total in more than two decades, while officially announcing only two.”
Iran Human Rights Monitor reported that in 2025 alone, Iran’s regime executed 1,791 people — an unprecedented figure in the past thirty-seven years.
The Islamic Republic has intensified its use of the death penalty to silence dissent and instill fear across society.
Iranian regime authorities hanged 335 prisoners, including 7 women, in November. Two of the victims were publicly executed.
The number of executions this month (November) was more than double the 155 in 2024, three times the 115 in 2023, six times the 57 in 2022, and eleven times the 30 in 2021.
According to NCRI, at Least 36 Prisoners Executed in the Past Three Days.
This brings the number of recorded executions in the first 17 days of the Persian month of Azar (since November 22) to over 200. During the same period, the regime’s judiciary sentenced a political prisoner to death on charges of supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and upheld the death sentences of six others on the same charge.
The rise in the issuance, confirmation, and implementation of death sentences in Iran in recent months has sparked widespread protest both inside and outside the country.
The U.K. Foreign Office called on November 21 for an immediate halt to executions in Iran.
On November 19, the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning human rights violations in Iran, with 79 votes in favor and 28 against. This year’s text placed greater emphasis on executions, women’s rights, the suppression of protesters, and transnational repression.
