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Iran executed 'at least 1,639 people' in 2025, highest number since 1989

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 702 words
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What to know about Capital punishment in Iran

Iran executed 'at least 1,639 people' in 2025, highest number since 1989 Iran executed at least 1,639 people last year, an average of more than four executions per day, Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said in…

Claims checked 11
Techniques found 1
Topics 2

Coverage spectrum

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What happened

Iran executed 'at least 1,639 people' in 2025, highest number since 1989 Iran executed at least 1,639 people last year, an average of more than four executions per day, Norway-based Iran Human Rights and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty said in…

Why it matters

Iranian authorities executed at least 1,639 people in 2025, the highest number since 1989, two NGOs said Monday, warning it risked using capital punishment even more extensively after protests in January and the war against Israel and the US.

Common ground

The number of executions represented an increase of 68 percent on the 975 people Iran put to death in 2024, and also included 48 women who were hanged, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Paris-based Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM) said in…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 1 propaganda technique in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Rights groups including Amnesty International say Iran carries out the most executions of any nation worldwide per capita”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support Amnesty International's claim about Iran's execution rate per capita.
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Claim 2: “Iran executed 'at least 1,639 people' in 2025, highest number since 1989”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent sources (NGOs and news outlets) report Iran executed at least 1,639 people in 2025, the highest since 1989. Web search results and cross-referenced claims from different organizations confirm this figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A constitutional referendum was held in Iran on 28 July 1989, alongside presidential elections. Approved by 97.6% of voters, it was the first and so far only time the Constitution of the Islamic Repub…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Iranian_constitutional_re…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in Iran on 28 July 1989, after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the selection of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the previous President of Iran, as the new Supreme…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Iranian_presidential_elec…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An election for the second supreme leader of Iran was held on 4 June and 6 August 1989 following the death of the first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini. In the second ballot in June, Ali Khamenei wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Iranian_supreme_leader_el…
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Claim 3: “Of these, 21 women were executed for the murder of their husbands or fiancés”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support the claim about 21 women executed for murdering husbands/fiancés.
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Claim 4: “At least 48 women were executed, the highest number recorded in more than 20 years”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support the claim about 48 women executed in 2025 being the highest in over 20 years.
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Claim 5: “At least 48 women were executed, the highest number recorded in more than 20 years and a 55 percent increase from 2024”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support the claim about 48 women executed in 2025.
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Claim 6: “Even during the war against Israel and the United States that began on February 28, Iran has hanged seven people in connection with the January protests”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 7: “Almost all hangings were carried out inside prisons, but public hangings more than tripled to 11 in 2025”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support the claim about public executions tripling to 11 in 2025.
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Claim 8: “Almost half of those executed were convicted of drug-related offences”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support the claim about drug-related offenses comprising over 40% of executions.
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Claim 9: “The number of executions represented an increase of 68 percent on the 975 people Iran put to death in 2024”
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Web search results explicitly state a 68% increase from 975 executions in 2024 to 1,639 in 2025, corroborated by multiple sources citing the same percentage and baseline figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Relations between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Persian Empire (Iran) officially commenced in 1521, with the Rurikids and Safavids in power respectively. Past and present contact between Russia an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Russia_relations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Geography is an important factor in informing Iran's foreign policy. Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the newly formed Islamic Republic, under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, dramatically …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Iran
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) (Persian: سازمان حقوق بشر ایران) is a non-profit international non-governmental organization focused on human rights in Iran. Founded in 2005, it is a non-partisan and polit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Human_Rights
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Claim 10: “Iran's penal code allows for other methods of capital punishment, but in recent years all known executions have been carried out by hanging”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence found in web search, Wikipedia, or cross-references to support the claim about all executions since recent years being by hanging.
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Claim 11: “Iran executed at least 1,639 people last year, an average of more than four executions per day”
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Two distinct web sources confirm an average of over four executions per day in 2025, with specific data on November and December execution counts supporting this rate.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On June 22, 2025, the United States Air Force and Navy attacked three nuclear facilities in Iran as part of the Twelve-Day War, under the code name Operation Midnight Hammer. The Fordow Uranium Enrich…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_strikes_on_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025–2026 Iranian protests are a series of nationwide demonstrations against the government of Iran that began on 28 December 2025 amid a deepening economic crisis. The unrest followed a sharp dep…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iranian_protests
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 12, 2025, Iran and the United States began a series of negotiations aimed at reaching a nuclear peace agreement, following a letter from U.S. president Donald Trump to Iranian supreme leader …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025–2026_Iran–United_States_n…
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