Executions based on beliefs continue under the dictatorship of the mullahs. On Monday, September 16, the death penalty was officially announced to two political prisoners: Behrouz Ehsani-Eslamlou, 70 years old and father of two, and Mehdi Hassani, 48 years old and father of three.

On Wednesday, September 18, the mullahs’ judiciary also informed political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafa’i-Sani that he had been sentenced to death for the third time in Mashhad prison. Their crimes: “rebellion, war against God, corruption on earth, and affiliation with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).” They were all arrested during the Mahsa movement uprising in 2022.

In his latest damning report, Professor Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran from July 2018 to July 2024, described two major waves of massacres in Iran—the 1982 massacre and the 1988 massacre—as genocides. This term is used because the Iranian........

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