Iran has executed at least 1,000 people so far in 2025, a non-governmental organization said Tuesday, denouncing a “mass killing campaign” in prisons in the Islamic Republic.

At least 64 executions took place in the past week alone, an average of more than nine hangings per day, said the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights (IHR), which counts and verifies executions in Iran on a daily basis.

With more than three months of 2025 still to go, the figure is already the highest since IHR began keeping records in 2008, topping the 975 executions recorded last year.

Iran carried out a spree of executions in the 1980s and early 1990s in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war.

But activists say the Islamic Republic is now using capital punishment more intensely than at any time in the past three decades. The clerical leadership under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was challenged by 2022-2023 protests sparked when Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died in custody after morality police detained her for an........

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