Iran: Brutal execution of seven political prisoners

Six Arab compatriots in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz and one Kurdish compatriot in Ghezel Hesar Prison

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi: These executions are Khamenei’s desperate attempt to prevent a popular uprising. This regime must be expelled from the international community, and its leaders must be brought to justice.
On the morning of Saturday, October 4, 2025, Khamenei’s executioners, in a criminal act, executed six Arab political prisoners—Ali Mojadam (44), Seyed Salem Mousavi (41), Seyed Adnan Ghobeishavi (29), Moein Khanfari (31), Habib Deris (42), and Mohammadreza Moghadam (33)—after seven years of imprisonment in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. The regime’s judiciary declared that these prisoners “had, over the past years, conducted a series of armed operations and bombings targeting the security of Khuzestan Province” (Mizan News Agency, October 4, 2025).
These six political prisoners, who had long been subjected to interrogation and torture, were sentenced to death on February 14, 2023, by Branch 4 of the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz, presided over by the criminal judge Adibi. The Iranian Resistance had, on April 27, 2024, May 4, 2024, October 16, 2024, and July 12, 2025, called on the United Nations and human rights organizations to take urgent action to save the lives of these prisoners.
In another crime committed this morning, political prisoner Saman Mohammadi-Khiareh was executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison after twelve years of imprisonment. The judiciary announced that Saman “was hanged on charges of armed operations, planning, and leading the assassination of Mamousta Mohammad Sheikh-al-Islam on September 17, 2009, in Sanandaj” (Mizan News Agency, October 4, 2025). Saman, 35, a resident of Sanandaj, had been arrested in December 2013 and sentenced to death by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by the criminal judge Salavati.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described these brutal executions as Khamenei’s desperate attempt to instill fear and terror in society and to prevent the eruption of public anger and a popular uprising. She stated that the religious dictatorship, through the execution and killing of the population—particularly among the doubly oppressed nationalities such as the Baluch, Kurdish, and Arab compatriots—reveals its desperation in the face of the Iranian people’s demand for regime change. Mrs. Rajavi added that this regime must be expelled from the international community, and Khamenei and other leaders must be brought to justice for forty-six years of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
4 October 2025