The Iranian regime executed more than 30 people over three days in late October.
The toll includes two brothers of a prisoner who was executed last year, according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Even as the executions intensify, the Europe-based resistance group reports that officials in Tehran are facing mounting dissent on multiple fronts.
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Confrontation between the state and an increasingly diverse cross-section of Iranian society is widening, NCRI said Tuesday.
“On Tuesday, Oct. 27, the clerical regime’s criminals ruthlessly hanged 15 prisoners,” NCRI officials said. “The executions are intended to intimidate society and deter another uprising.”
The crackdown on dissent by the Iranian regime has also been reported by the Norway-based Iran Human Rights and by exiled political activist Ebrahim Allahbakhshi.
The pressure extends beyond the political prisoners to their families. Women and workers are protesting economic hardship in Iran while a prison hunger strike campaign has drawn the participation of United Nations human rights experts.
One of the prisoners, Gholamhossein Yari, was executed in connection with the death of a member of Iran’s repressive State Security Force, NCRI officials said.
Protests against the ruling regime in Tehran have spread across the country. Retirees launched demonstrations in at least 10 cities over their living conditions, inflation, medical costs and declining purchasing power.
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