Iran executes 6 death-row inmates it alleges carried out assaults on behalf of Israel

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Iran executed six death-row inmates Saturday it alleged carried out assaults within the nation's oil-rich southwest on behalf of Israel, the most recent prisoners to be put to demise in a wave of executions believed to be the very best in a long time.

The executions comply with the 12-day Iran-Israel war in June, which ended with Tehran vowing it will goal its enemies at dwelling and overseas. Nonetheless, activists warn Iran typically depends on coerced confessions and closed-door trials in its demise penalty instances, significantly these involving Israel.

Iran mentioned the boys killed law enforcement officials and safety forces, in addition to orchestrated bombings concentrating on websites round Khorramshahr in Iran's restive Khuzestan province. Iranian state tv aired footage of one of many males speaking concerning the assaults, saying it was the primary time the main points have been being made public.

A Kurdish group known as the Hengaw Group for Human Rights reported the boys's execution, figuring out all of them as "Arab political prisoners" detained throughout protests in 2019. It mentioned Iran had accused the boys of getting hyperlinks to the Arab Battle Motion for the Liberation of Ahvaz, which has launched assaults towards oil pipelines in Iran's southwest up to now and different assaults.

"The six males have been subjected to extreme torture and coerced into giving televised 'confessions' underneath duress," Hengaw mentioned.

The Arab inhabitants of Khuzestan has lengthy complained of discrimination by Iran's central authorities. The area additionally has been roiled like different elements of Iran within the waves of nationwide protests the nation has seen in recent times.

Iran individually put to demise one other inmate Saturday, it accused of killing a Sunni cleric in 2009 in Iran's Kurdistan province, amongst different crimes.

In response to these protests and the June battle, Iran has been placing prisoners to death at a tempo unseen since 1988, when it executed 1000's on the finish of the Iran-Iraq battle.

The Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights and the Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran put the variety of folks executed in 2025 at over 1,000, noting the determine might be greater as Iran doesn't report on every execution.