The Iranian regime is preparing to carry out imminent executions against participants in the ongoing anti-regime protests challenging the rule of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. According to multiple reports, authorities intend to enforce death sentences against an initial group of detainees—whom they have branded as “ringleaders of the riots”—as early as tomorrow morning, Wednesday.
Among those facing execution is 26-year-old protester Irfan Soltani, whose death sentence is reportedly scheduled to be carried out tomorrow, only days after his arrest for participating in the demonstrations. His case has become emblematic of the regime’s escalating crackdown and its use of capital punishment as a tool of intimidation.
Information emerging from inside Iran indicates that the executions are expected to be carried out by hanging, with the possibility that some may be conducted publicly, in an apparent attempt to instill fear and deter further dissent. Soltani was denied access to legal representation, subjected to a summary and opaque judicial process, and deprived of any meaningful right to appeal—raising grave concerns that Iran is entering a phase of fast-track executions designed to crush protest movements through terror.
These developments come amid an intensifying wave of repression. Protests that erupted days ago have already resulted in the deaths of more than 500 people, killed by regime security forces using extreme violence. In parallel, hundreds of demonstrators have been arbitrarily arrested, many held incommunicado, as reports of torture, forced confessions, and sham trials continue to surface.
Human rights organizations warn that these executions could mark the beginning of a broader campaign of state-sanctioned killings, aimed not at justice, but at silencing an entire population demanding change.
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