'Killing off the country': Iran executes dozens, arrests 4,000+ in war crackdown

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk connected Tuesday accused Iran’s authorities of dramatically intensifying its crackdown connected dissent successful the aftermath of the February conflict, informing that Tehran has carried retired executions, wide arrests, torture and 1 of the world’s longest net shutdowns portion invoking nationalist security.

In a sharply worded connection from Geneva, Türk said astatine slightest 21 radical person been executed and much than 4,000 arrested connected nationalist security-related charges since Feb. 28, arsenic the authorities faces mounting scrutiny implicit what helium described arsenic a sweeping battle connected cardinal rights. 

"I americium appalled that, connected apical of the already terrible impacts of the conflict, the rights of the Iranian radical proceed to beryllium stripped from them by the authorities, successful harsh and brutal ways," Türk said.

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A protester holds 'Stop executions successful Iran' and 'Free Iran' placards during the demonstration. Demonstrators gathered extracurricular Downing Street successful protestation against executions successful Iran and successful enactment of state for Iran.  (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Since the commencement of the struggle 2 months ago, the U.N. said 9 radical person been executed successful transportation with the January 2026 protests, 10 for alleged rank successful absorption groups, and 2 connected espionage charges. It's estimated that immoderate 40,000 radical were killed by authorities forces during January's uprising.

Türk warned that Iran’s wide usage of vaguely defined nationalist information laws has enabled authorities to fast-track prosecutions, contradict ineligible counsel, and trust connected coerced confessions.

"Even wherever nationalist information is invoked, quality rights tin lone beryllium constricted wherever strictly indispensable and proportionate," helium said, calling connected Tehran to halt executions, enforce a moratorium connected superior punishment, and instantly merchandise those arbitrarily detained.

For galore Iranian dissidents, the findings bespeak an already dire reality.

A billboard depicting Iran's ultimate leaders since 1979: (L to R) Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini (until 1989), Ali Khamenei (until 2026), and Mojtaba Khamenei (incumbent) is displayed supra a road successful Tehran connected March 10, 2026. Iran marked the assignment of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to regenerate his begetter arsenic its ultimate person connected March 9, 2026.  (AFP/Via Getty Images)

"It is bad," Banafsheh Zand, an Iranian-American writer and exertion of the Iran So Far Away Substack, told Fox News Digital. "They’re wholly sidesplitting disconnected the country."

Türk’s bureau said detainees person reportedly faced enforced disappearances, torture, mock executions, and televised confessions, with taste and spiritual minorities including Bahá’ís, Zoroastrians, Kurds and Baluch Iranians facing peculiar risk.

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Ali and Kiana Rahmani judge the Nobel Peace Prize 2023 connected behalf of their mother, imprisoned Iranian quality rights activistic Narges Mohammadi, astatine Oslo City Hall successful Norway connected Dec. 10, 2023. (Javad Parsa/NTB/Reuters)

Among those cited by the U.N. was imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, whose information sharply worsened Friday aft what her household described arsenic a catastrophic wellness situation pursuing months of being denied specialized care.

According to a connection from the Narges Foundation that was published Friday, Mohammadi was urgently transferred by ambulance from Zanjan Prison to a infirmary aft suffering 2 episodes of implicit nonaccomplishment of consciousness successful a azygous day, accompanied by terrible cardiac distress. The instauration said situation doctors determined her information could nary longer beryllium managed on-site aft what her household called a "last-minute" transportation that whitethorn person travel dangerously late.

Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, told Fox News Digital earlier this week that her carnal information had already go progressively dire aft what helium described arsenic a convulsive apprehension and deteriorating situation treatment. "She has sustained terrible trauma and urgently requires aesculapian attention."

Rahmani antecedently said Mohammadi’s aesculapian squad and extracurricular specialists had pushed for attraction successful Tehran owed to her past of aggregate bosom procedures, portion authorities allegedly blocked those recommendations until her information became life-threatening. Despite her carnal decline, Rahmani said, "Spiritually and mentally, Narges remains steadfast."

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In this photograph obtained by The Associated Press, teardrop state is fired during an anti-government protestation successful Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026. (UGC via AP) (UGC via AP)

The U.N. statement, combined with Mohammadi’s exigency hospitalization, has intensified scrutiny of Iran’s situation conditions, which Türk described arsenic marked by overcrowding, aesculapian neglect, and terrible quality rights abuses.

Türk besides cited dire situation conditions, including overcrowding, shortages of food, h2o and medicine, and denial of aesculapian care.

The U.N. further highlighted reports of lethal unit successful detention facilities, including claims that information forces killed astatine slightest 5 detainees successful Chabahar Prison aft protests implicit suspended nutrient distribution.

But portion dissidents welcomed the U.N.’s unusually forceful language, immoderate besides questioned whether condemnation without enactment tin meaningfully change conditions, particularly arsenic Iran this week was elevated to a vice-chair relation connected a U.N. atomic nonproliferation committee.

"The crushed wherefore Iranians conscionable don't trust, don't similar and don't privation to cognize from the U.N.," Zand said, is what she described arsenic its repeated nonaccomplishment "to emergence to the juncture of responding to the authorities and holding their feet to the occurrence astatine the close time... with the close magnitude of pressure."

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Iranian diaspora activists gathered successful beforehand of the German Federal Foreign Office successful Berlin connected Jan. 27, 2024, to protestation the summation successful decease sentences by Iran's Islamic Republic rulers. The objection was organized by the Echo Iran group. (Echo Iran/Middle East Images/AFP)

While she said the latest connection itself was important, Zand argued galore presumption specified condemnations arsenic hollow erstwhile paired with what they spot arsenic organization legitimacy granted to Tehran.

"They're making a statement... fine," she said. "But what are they gonna bash astir it?"