Iran International and Iran Human Rights confirmed that Mehdi Rasouli and Mohammadreza Miri were hanged in Mashhad in the early hours of 4 May 2026.1 Iranian state media described both men as "Mossad elements" linked to a January 2026 coup attempt and to the killing of a security forces member.
The "Mossad elements" label is not new, but its target set is widening. Hengaw first documented the framing for Naser Bakrzadeh and Yaqoub Karimpour, who were executed on 2 May on Israel-espionage charges. On 3 May, Mehrab Abdollahzadeh was executed at Urmia Central Prison. With Rasouli and Miri on 4 May, the wartime register stands at five confirmed political executions in three days, faster than any prior phase of the conflict.
The Mossad framing carries a counter-espionage register that compresses judicial process and forecloses appeal. Cases that previously moved through domestic security or moharebeh statutes are now being absorbed into a single wartime espionage frame; the legal architecture does not need new statute, only new framing of existing detainees. Iran Human Rights records at least 25 political executions since the 28 February strikes began, roughly 1.3 per day in the past three days alone, yet the official Iranian state register acknowledges none of them.
The Pakdasht mosque-fire defendants sit on the final-rulings docket and are now the next imminent execution risk. Hengaw's monitoring scope, originally focused on Kurdish-majority provinces, has had to expand to cover the broader wartime register, which suggests the centre of gravity for political executions is no longer the periphery. The accelerating tempo continues to track the diplomatic calendar inversely; every Pakistan-channel paper reply is matched by a tightening of the domestic register.
