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UN Reports 1,000 Executions in Iran Amid Drug Crackdown

9/30/2025

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UN experts report over 1,000 executions in Iran in the first nine months of 2025, a dramatic escalation.
About half were for drug offenses, with an average of nine executions per day documented.
Bahman Choubi Asl was executed after the Supreme Court upheld his spying-for-Israel conviction; Mizan offers no evidence and this year includes the 11th Israeli-spy execution in Iran.

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UN experts report over 1,000 executions in Iran in the first nine months of 2025, a dramatic escalation.
About half were for drug offenses, with an average of nine executions per day documented.
Bahman Choubi Asl was executed after the Supreme Court upheld his spying-for-Israel conviction; Mizan offers no evidence and this year includes the 11th Israeli-spy execution in Iran.