Iran Human Rights

Iran Human Rights finalised its Khordad count, covering 22 May to 21 June 2026, at 140 executions on 30 June, six more than the 134 it had already recorded. The group frames the revision as a verification-lag correction rather than a fresh wave of killings after the Iranian month ended, since Iran's judiciary publishes no official figure IHR's tally can be checked against.

That Khordad count included 31 executions in the four days surrounding the 13-16 June Ceasefire signing, averaging one every three hours during the diplomatic peak IHR was tracking in parallel. IHR's methodology, distinguishing confirmed from reported cases, keeps its figures Conservative next to rival counts such as Amnesty International's register, which had already passed 200 executions for 2026 by mid-May.

Iran Human Rights confirmed both deaths in the 4 May Mashhad hangings of Mehdi Rasouli and Mohammadreza Miri, executed on charges Iranian state media rebranded as Mossad involvement in a January 2026 coup attempt, putting its wartime political-execution total at 25-plus since February.

The same week, IHR confirmed Ebrahim Dolatabadi's execution just six days after sentencing, the shortest gap in its wartime register against a normal three-to-six-month appeal process. That case-by-case verification, distinct from unconfirmed claims circulating elsewhere in the record, is what gives IHR's aggregate figures their credibility with UN and EU bodies.