Iran: 200 executions in September 2025 — the highest figure in 36 years, 2.5 times September 2024 and 7 times 2023

Khamenei, today the world’s record-holder for executions, began October with at least 14 executions (Wednesday, 1 October 2025)
Recorded executions in the first nine months of 2025 reached 1,200 while in all of 2024 the number of executions was 1,001

Ms. Maryam Rajavi: With greater brutality they seek to prevent the uprising. But the determination of the youth to change the regime only hardens.

The regime must be ostracized by the international community and Khamenei, and his other leaders must be brought to justice for decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
In an unprecedented record, on the orders of Khamenei — the Zahhâq with a serpent on his shoulders — the regime’s judiciary hanged at least 200 prisoners, including six women in September 2025, the highest number of executions in a single month in 36 years. The number of executions in that month is roughly 2.5 times September 2024, when 84 executions took place, and seven times September 2023, when there were 29 executions.
Accordingly, the number of executions in the first nine months of 2025 reaches at least 1,200. This is while in the entire previous Gregorian year 1,001 prisoners were executed. The number of executions during Masoud Pezeshkian’s tenure reaches 1,892.
Khamenei, the world’s record-holder for executions, began Wednesday, 1 October 2025 with a new wave of executions and, according to reports received by the morning of 2 October 2025, sent at least 14 prisoners to the gallows: Mehrdad Shahidi, 33, and Saeed Amiri, 30, in Kermanshah; Kamran Navvabi in Hamedan; Jafar Parvardi in Lakan, Rasht; Mohammad Faraji, 30, in Sanandaj; Seyed Saeed Seyed Tabaei; Hamidreza Maleki; Javad Sargazi; Sajad Mahmoudi; Ali Garavand; and Mehdi Moradi in Qezel Hesar; Hamzeh Saeedi; Nader Miyanji, 38; and Mostafa Salehi in Isfahan. On Tuesday, 30 September, Gholamali Nazarian was executed in Kermanshah; on Monday, 29 September, in addition to the prisoners named in a previous statement, Hamed Badrabadi in Malayer and a female prisoner named Jiran Zaheri were executed in Isfahan.
Ms. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, remarked concerning the increasing trend of executions: “This brutality and savagery indicate the fact that Khamenei’s fear of the eruption of popular anger grows daily, and by creating an atmosphere of terror and intimidation he seeks to prevent the emergence of a popular uprising. But these bloodlettings only strengthen the resolve of the dissatisfied masses and the rebellious youth to change the regime and replace it with democracy and popular sovereignty.”
Ms. Rajavi added that the regime must be expelled from the international community and that Khamenei and its other leaders must be brought to justice for 46 years of crimes against humanity and genocide. Relations and deals with the regime of executions and terror only encourage it to continue and intensify its crimes inside and outside Iran.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
2 October 2025