Tehran [Iran], October 5 (ANI): Iran on Saturday executed six men accused of carrying out deadly attacks in the country’s southwest on behalf of Israel, Fox News reported, citing state media. The men were allegedly involved in a series of assaults on police and security forces in Khorramshahr, a city in the oil-rich Khuzestan province, as well as bombings across the area.
Authorities also confirmed a separate execution in Kurdistan province, where a man convicted of killing a Sunni cleric in 2009 and committing other crimes was hanged, according to Fox News. The executions follow the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June, which ended with Tehran warning it would retaliate against its “enemies at home and abroad.”
The United States Department of War, formerly the Department of Defense, stated that the strikes during the conflict had obliterated Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth credited President Trump for the military operation that resulted in a ceasefire agreement between the two nations.
Iranian state television aired footage of one of the executed men allegedly confessing to the attacks, claiming it was the first public airing of his statement. However, Kurdish human rights group Hengaw disputed the official narrative, asserting that the six were Arab political prisoners detained during the anti-government protests of 2019. The group said authorities falsely linked them to the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz (ASMLA), a separatist organization accused of pipeline bombings in the region.
Hengaw alleged the men were tortured and forced into televised confessions under duress. “The six men were subjected to severe torture and coerced into giving televised confessions under duress. They were accused of transferring foreign currency through an international bank, carrying out armed attacks, and maintaining links to the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz,” the group stated.
Amnesty International reported that Iran has executed more than 1,000 people so far this year—the highest figure recorded by the organization in at least 15 years. The unprecedented pace of executions has drawn comparisons to 1988, when Tehran executed thousands of political prisoners at the close of the Iran-Iraq war.
Independent United Nations experts also condemned Tehran’s actions in a recent statement. “With an average of more than nine hangings per day in recent weeks, Iran appears to be conducting executions at an industrial scale that defies all accepted standards of human rights protection,” the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
The UN body described the surge as “a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights law,” urging Iran to halt the wave of executions and adhere to fundamental standards of justice. (ANI)
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