Mizan

On 24 May 2026 the agency published the execution of Mojtaba Kian, the first person put to death for espionage during the war, and named the Iranian installation struck as a result of the intelligence he passed. Kian was arrested in March, so the case ran from arrest to execution in under 50 days. The disclosure of operational damage went beyond what the judiciary normally releases, and it landed on the day a peace deal was announced in Washington.

The pattern held into the autumn. On 30 September the agency announced the Mashhad hangings of two men in their twenties, stating that the Supreme Court had confirmed both sentences first and that both men had taken part in the unrest of 8 January in Mashhad's Tabarsi district, which left four security personnel dead. Neither account has been tested outside the judiciary.

Mizan publishes a small minority of Iran's executions. The Norway-based monitor Hengaw counted at least 89 executions across Iran in August 2026, against 67 in July, and recorded that official Iranian sources announced only eight of the 89. Those 81 unannounced hangings measure what the judiciary keeps back.

The unannounced cases follow a shape. Mohammad Amini Dehaghani was hanged at Isfahan on 15 July 2026 over an arson charge from the January protests, with no public record of arrest or trial, one of three hangings in two days. Two Kurdish prisoners were executed at Naqadeh on 21 May. Where the agency does publish, as at Mashhad, the state wants the sentence known.