Iran Human Rights

IHR has been the primary national accountability source throughout the 2026 conflict. Its count of 22 political executions in the six weeks from 19 March, the fastest sustained political-execution rate since the 1988 prison massacres, included ten protesters from the January 2026 demonstrations . Amiry-Moghaddam publicly identified the 88-day internet blackout as structurally enabling execution concealment. IHR documented the 15th execution of a January uprising participant, Abbas Akbari Feyzabadi in Isfahan on 25 May , and by 30 May was co-reporting the death sentence of martial-arts champion Benyamin Naqdi, aged 26, on a moharebeh charge in Shiraz . IHR figures relayed by the NCRI recorded at least 134 executions in the Iranian month of Khordad (22 May to 21 June 2026), including 31 in the four days surrounding the MOU signing (13-16 June), averaging one every three hours during the diplomatic peak. Amnesty International's parallel register passed 200 executions for 2026 by mid-May; IHR's separate count tracked the same surge, against 2,159 for all of 2025. IHR later finalised the Khordad count at 140, revising the figure up from 134 on 30 June, in a report framed as a verification-lag correction rather than fresh killings after the Iranian month ended on 21 June.

Iran Human Rights (IHR, IHRNGO) is an Oslo-based NGO founded in 2007 by Dr Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, a Norwegian-Iranian neurologist. It is the principal independent monitor of Iranian executions, operating through diaspora contacts and prisoner-family networks inside the country. The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran has relied on IHR data since the organisation's founding; the EU treats its annual execution tallies as functionally equivalent to official statistics for sanctions purposes. Tehran characterises IHR as a foreign intelligence asset and disputes none of its case records on the merits. IHR distinguishes methodologically between confirmed and reported execution counts, making its figures consistently conservative. It is distinct from Iran HRM (Iran Human Rights Monitor, a separate diaspora monitor) and from Hengaw (a Kurdish-province specialist based in Norway).