Iran has executed six fighters accused of waging armed attacks in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, according to state media, as the country continues its accelerated executions of people it says have ties to Israel following the 12-day June conflict with Israel and the United States.
In a separate execution on Saturday, authorities hanged Kurdish fighter Saman Mohammadi after convicting him for “Moharebeh”—waging war against God.
Mohammadi, arrested in 2013, was reportedly involved in the 2009 killing of the Friday prayers imam in the western city of Sanandaj, as well as in armed robberies and kidnappings, including the killing of a conscript.
The executions came less than a week after Iran said it hanged Bahman Choobiasl, a man it described as “one of the most important spies for Israel in Iran”.
In response to the June war and protests in recent years over the state of the economy, women’s rights and some calls for regime change, Iran has sentenced more people to death.
According to the Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights and the Washington, DC-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, the number of people executed in 2025 was more than 1,000, but it notes that the number could be higher as Tehran does not report each execution.
Iran is the world’s second most prolific executioner after China, according to human rights groups including Amnesty International.
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