Iranian authorities are stepping up their brutal crackdown on the population with arrested protesters facing the death penalty for daring to rise up against the regime.
Merciless security guards have already slaughtered thousands of protesters in an increasingly bloody attempt to stamp out dissent with pictures showing victims lined up in body bags.
Desperate clerics led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who the UN previously accused of using the death penalty ‘at an industrial scale’, are now set to unleash a wave of executions after capturing huge numbers of activists.
Yesterday, it was reported that clothes shop owner Erfan Soltani was to become the first to face the death penalty having been arrested for taking part in anti-government protests last week.
Under the rule of Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the nation for the last 36 years, Iran has become infamous for being one of the most prolific executors in the world, behind only China.
Just last month, the country was reported to have seen more than twice as many executions in 2025 than in 2024.
The Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said it had verified at least 1,500 executions until the start of December, the BBC reported.
Methods of execution range from being placed in front of firing squads to being thrown from great heights. But the most common method is hanging.
Public executions might help with repeat offenders here in the United States.