Iran performs six prisoners accused of having conducted deadly attacks for Israel

Iran would have executed six prisoners on Saturday, which said that the regime said it has conducted deadly attacks in the southwest oil-rich oil in the name of Israel, marking the last increase in executions which, according to the defense groups, have reached invisible levels for decades.

The six executions were reported by the Associated Press, as well as the Iranian news agency Mizan.

A seventh prisoner, accused of having killed a Sunni religious in 2009, with other crimes, was executed in the province of Kurdistan.

Saturday executions follow the Iran-Israeli war of 12 days in June, which ended with Tehran, swearing that he would aim at his enemies in the country and abroad.

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A woman establishes flowers for victims of executions in Iran during a rally in Paris, France, May 13, 2025. (Siavosh Hosseini / Sopa Images / Lightrocket via Getty Images)

According to Amnesty International, the Iranian authorities have executed more than 1,000 people so far in 2025, the highest annual figure recorded by the group for at least 15 years.

Iran said the six men linked to Israel killed police and security forces, as well as orchestrated attacks targeting sites around Khorramshahr in the director of Iranian Khuzestan. Iranian state television broadcast images of one of the men speaking of attacks, saying it was the first time that the details were made public.

A Kurdish group called the Hangaw organization for human rights said that the six were in fact Arab political prisoners who had been arrested during the 2019 demonstrations. Hangaw declared that Iran had accused them of having links with the Arab struggle for the liberation of Ahvaz, a separatist group blamed for the attacks of pipeline and other attacks in the region.

The group insisted that the men were tortured and forced to give television confessions under constraint.

The supreme chief of Iran, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, illustrated next to a senior military official in Iran. (Getty Images)

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The seventh prisoner, Saman Mohammadi Khiyareh, a Kurd, was sentenced for the assassination of Mamousta Sheikh al-Islam in 2009, a pro-government Sunni religious in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj.

Activists questioned the case of Khiyareh, noting that he was only 15 or 16 years old at the time of the assassination, was arrested at 19 years old and was detained for more than a decade before his execution. Her conviction, she said, relied on the confessions extracted under torture-a practice of activists accuses the Iranian courts of using regularly.

The number of state executions has been considerably intensified since President Massoud Pezeshkian took office in July 2024. At least 975 people were executed In 2024, according to United Nations figures. Pezeshkian responds to the supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ultimate authority in the country.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks during a meeting in Tehran. Iran was faced with an international examination on an increase in executions this year. (Iranian Presidency / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Iran has put prisoners to death at an invisible rate since 1988, when it executed thousands at the end of the Iran-Iraq war.

Independent United Nations human rights experts have sounded the alarm on the large number of executions, appealing to “a spectacular escalation which violates international human rights law”, according to a recent press release from the High Human Rights Commissioner.

“With an average of more than nine hangings per day in recent weeks, Iran seems to carry out executions on an industrial scale that defies all accepted standards for the protection of human rights,” said the body.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report