Iran has executed at least 1,000 people over the past nine months, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) organization.
The number of executions has reportedly reached a three-decade peak, with 64 executions over the past week alone.
The executions, mostly hangings, toppled the previous figure of 975 state murders in 2024 and the record in 2015.
“The Islamic Republic has begun a mass killing campaign in Iran’s prisons, the dimensions of which, in the absence of serious international reactions, are expanding every day,” IHR director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam told The Telegraph.
The 12 Day War
The dramatic rise in executions has been connected by activists to the war in June with Israel, as Tehran accused waves of individuals of working with the Jewish state.
“We will definitely deal decisively and legally with spies, but it should be noted that identifying them is not easy and requires intelligence techniques,” Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i said.
Experts have warned that the war has been used by the Islamic regime to covertly intensify repression and instill fear against rebellion.
Amnesty International and other humanitarian organizations have warned that Iran is the country carrying out the second largest number of executions behind China.