The Blogs: Islamic Regime in Iran Hangs at Dawn to the Echo of the Islamic Call to Prayer

The World Watches While the Islamic Republic Occupying Iran Hangs at Dawn to the Echo of the Islamic Call to Prayer

Iran, Isfahan. 4:00 a.m. this morning.

As the Islamic call to prayer echoed across the city, three young men were led to the gallows.

Abolfazl Sepahi (23), Amirhossein Safari (27), and Saleh Mirhashemi (36) were executed by hanging.

One of the condemned was disabled. Another suffered a heart attack at the foot of the gallows before the execution was carried out.

While the regime carried out these executions, protesters in Isfahan’s Alikhani Square came to stand against the killings. Reports from the scene state that 211 people were injured, one person was murdered, and at least 340 were arrested during the crackdown.

Among them was Anahita Azarshab, a psychology student from Isfahan.

She came to protest the executions.

She never returned home.

She was reportedly shot and killed by Islamic Republic security forces.

This was not an isolated tragedy. It was another day under the Islamic Republic.

A government that answers peaceful protest with bullets and dissent with the hangman’s noose.

The Islamic Republic occupying Iran has dramatically accelerated its campaign of executions in the aftermath of the latest strikes. Once again, it is using terror to preserve its grip on power, sending a clear message to every Iranian who dares to dream of freedom: opposition will be met with imprisonment, torture, or death.

According to information we have received from sources inside Iran, the scale of the killings during the January 8–9 crackdown was far greater than publicly acknowledged. These sources allege that as many as 100,000 people were killed. They further report that many bodies were transported to undisclosed facilities—what Persians call koureh-ye adam-soozi (“human crematoriums”)—while countless families were denied the opportunity to recover or even identify the remains of their loved ones. These reports require an urgent, independent international investigation.

Since the 12-day conflict that began in February, the regime has intensified its machinery of repression, with hundreds reportedly executed by hanging. Every day the world looks away gives this regime more time to imprison, torture, and execute those who refuse to surrender their hope for freedom.

The Islamic Republic is not acting alone. Its network of proxy forces—including Hashd al-Shaabi, the Zeynabiyoun Brigade, and the Fatemiyoun Division—has helped advance Tehran’s influence and violence throughout the region while the regime continues targeting dissidents at home.

But for those who have never lived under such a system, these words may sound like politics.

They are not.

I know because I lived it.