Iran has executed at least 1,000 people in 2025 – NGO

A big flag of Iran waving in the wind in Tehran, Iran.

Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, an NGO said on Tuesday, denouncing a “mass killing campaign” in prisons in the Islamic Republic.

At least 64 executions took place in the past week alone, an average of more than nine hangings per day, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group, which counts and verifies executions in Iran daily.

With more than three months of 2025 still to go, the figure is already the highest since IHR began keeping records in 2008, topping the 975 executions recorded last year.

Iran carried out a spree of executions in the 1980s and early 1990s in the aftermath of the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war. Punch