Iran has executed at least 56 people since start of war, UN says: ‘Deeply troubling’

The bloodthirsty Iranian regime has executed at least 56 people on dubious national security charges since March, according to the United Nations — which blasted Iran for the “deeply troubling” practice.

Twenty-seven of the 56 were linked to the widespread January protests against the country’s despotic regime and brutal treatment of its citizens.

Another roughly 100 people are believed to currently be awaiting execution on similar charges, according to the BBC.

The United Nations issued a sharp rebuke of Iran’s prolific use of capital punishment in a recent statement. Martin Pope/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

The barbaric executions — which are often carried out in public — are part of a widespread tactic “to instill fear among the population and suppress dissent,” UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in a recent scathing statement.

“Such punishment has no place in our world,” Türk said.

The chief also raised alarm about the judicial process which leads to capital punishment — saying trials and due process were nearly non-existent in Iran.

“Several executions have reportedly been carried out in public. Some have reportedly been carried out only weeks after arrest,” Türk said. “Twelve defendants were reportedly sentenced to death following a single three-hour closed-door hearing.”

Iran is notorious for its use of executions — which it metes out so liberally that the country is the second-most prolific user of capital punishment on Earth.

In 2026, a stunning 2,159 people were executed in Iran, Amnesty International reported.

Iran’s use of capital punishment is infamous — the country put over 2,000 people to death in 2025.

That was the highest number of people executed in the country since 1981 and came during 12 months of widespread public dissent over the Iranian government’s treatment of its people.

With war now raging and the Iranian regime on the brink of collapse, the UN cautioned that Iran appeared to be weaponizing public executions to keep the citizenry living in fear.

Iran did not respond to the UN’s comments, but has previously defended its use of capital punishment by saying it was reserved only for “the most severe crimes.”

Several people were executed in the last two weeks alone, including a 19-year-old charged with “enmity against god” for allegedly partaking in January’s protests. Two others arrested during the protests were also executed.

And in July, two people were executed out of a group of 12 convicted of “corruption on Earth” and “enmity against God” over connections to four police killed in January.

But they were tried as a group, with the UN cautioning that each was sentenced to death “in one hearing, in a closed courtroom and without clarity as to each defendant’s individual responsibility.”