Iran: Imminent execution of five more political prisoners?

They are Vahid Bani Ameri, Pouya Ghobadi, Shahrokh Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, and Mohammad Taghavi. This transfer could signal the imminent execution of these prisoners.

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On Sunday, July 27, two political prisoners, Mehdi Hassani (69) and Behrouz Ehsani (48), were already executed in the same prison for “belonging to the People's Mujahideen.”

According to the Mizan news agency, the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime's judiciary, the 36th session of the trial of the “104 people” was held on July 27. The majority of those accused in this case are members or supporters of the People's Mujahideen Organization. This trial, far from being a genuine judicial proceeding, is part of the regime's political propaganda and repression campaign. It aims to link the 12-day war and the military and intelligence defeats suffered to alleged “espionage on behalf of the Mujahideen” in order to create a psychological climate conducive to the repression of opponents.

This judicial masquerade also serves as a smokescreen to conceal the inefficiency of the Revolutionary Guards and the regime's defense apparatus during the recent conflict.

Through this strategy, the regime is preparing a new wave of bloody repression with several objectives:

• Intimidate the population and prevent any wave of protests
• Eliminate active resistance units across the country that pose a real threat to its survival
• Stop the growing support for these units among young people
• Repeat the 1988 massacre under the pretext of “collective moharebeh” and “collaboration with the enemy”

A massacre announced and taking place in full view of everyone

Stephen J. Rapp, former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, writes in the Washington Post:

"If the current trajectory continues, the number of executions in Iran in 2025 could exceed all records in recent memory, with the possible exception of the horror of 1988. That summer, some 30,000 political prisoners were summarily executed. Their only ‘crime’ was to remain faithful to their commitment to democratic opposition."