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Iranwire – Iran has executed seven prisoners convicted of murder or drug-related offenses across five cities, according to human rights sources.
The prisoners were identified as Heshmat Foroughi, Sajad Amiri, Bahman Shah-Hosseini, Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini, Saber Nasiri, Shah-Hossein Afshar, and Mehran Jafari-Novgorani.
Foroughi, 33, from Yasuj, and Amiri, 37, from the Darreh Shuri branch of the Qashqai tribe, were executed on Thursday in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, the Hengaw human rights organization reported.
Amiri had been arrested about a year earlier on charges of killing a police colonel, while Foroughi had been detained four years ago on accusations of murder during a street altercation.
Shah-Hosseini, 36, from Tehran, and Hosseini, 35, from Arak, were executed on Tuesday morning in Qezelhesar Prison in Karaj.
Both had been imprisoned for eight years on drug charges and were held in solitary confinement for 16 days before their executions, according to informed sources.
Nasiri, convicted of murder, was executed on Tuesday in the Central Prison of Aligudarz in Lorestan Province.
Afshar, convicted on drug charges, was executed Monday in Nishabur Prison in Razavi Khorasan Province.
Jafari-Novgorani, 28, from Baghshad, Isfahan, was executed on September 29 in Dastgerd Central Prison in Isfahan. He had been arrested six years earlier on murder charges.
According to reports, Iran executed at least 187 prisoners in September, marking a 140 per cent increase from the same month last year and the highest monthly total in two decades.
The executions included three political prisoners and two prisoners of conscience.
At least six women were also executed in prisons in Shiraz, Isfahan, Tabriz, Qazvin, Zanjan, and Sabzevar.
Amnesty International reported last week that Iran executed more than 1,000 people in the first nine months of 2025.
