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Rights group says Iran executed at least 1,500 people in 2025, a 35-year record
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group says, in what it calls an “unprecedented” hike in the use of capital punishment.
“It is unprecedented in the last 35 years. As long as Iran Human Rights has existed, we have never had such numbers,” its director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam says.
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