Iran protests erupt as fearful ayatollah resorts to 'amputating hands and public hangings'

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Iran protests erupt as fearful ayatollah resorts to ‘amputating hands and public hangings'

EXCLUSIVE: Iran's government, the IRGC, has ramped up political executions, killing nearly 30 people just last week, as activists reveal the Ayatollah is 'fearful'.
By Yelena Mandenberg
18:23 ET, Thu, Aug 28, 2025 Updated: 11:13 ET, Fri, Aug 29, 2025

https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/181873/fresh-protests-iran-fearful-ayatollah


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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei makes his first public appearance since the war with Is (Image: Getty)



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“[Many] are young people within their twenties who have been executed by hanging. And in the city of Kermanshah, we saw two other executions on July 29, and on Sunday, this is last Sunday, 13 prisoners were actually sent to the gallows for execution,” Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad, a board member of the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC), told Express US. It is believed that around 116 prisoners were executed just this month. It comes after a lip reader revealed the chilling 3-word promise that Donald Trump whispered into Vladimir Putin's ear at their Alaska summit.


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Since the 12-day war with Israel, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, as Iran’s government is known, has sought to tighten its grip on power. However, a “fearful” Ayatollah has gone into hiding ever since Israeli missiles took out a large part of his inner circle - between eight and 10 top IRGC generals and leaders were killed. He's made just one public appearance since, with many taking note of his disappearance.

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According to Amnesty International, Iran executes more people than any other country except China. Last month, the UN Human Rights Office publicly urged Iran's leaders to stop using the death penalty, based on the "worrying surge in executions" that saw at least 612 people reportedly executed in the first half of this year.

Last week alone, 31 people - including one woman - were executed, with two executions carried out publicly in western Larestan. Human rights activists say the government uses executions to instill fear, humiliate society, and normalize violence.

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This past weekend has seen a burgeoning of protests. Four to five hundred people gathered and chanted slogans about ending the regime and ‘freedom’ in front of the Shiraz Governor's Office.

The protests should keep in mind for the West that “an organized resistance has been fighting this, that's why you see this continuing brutality, and it has been the regime's effort to decapitate this resistance that has failed despite the massacres and the killings and the murders,” said Dr Sadeghpour.

The crack down comes after a Khamenei issued a chilling message to Trump - a $50 million bounty was placed on the president's head.

Reports that droughts and unmaintained water sources have created an issue with access to drinking water in Tehran, and regularly occurring power cuts, are also creating public anger and contributing to protests.

[gulliver]

1. Fatwas against Trump or anyone...

Fatwas should be regarded as war crimes under international law and as acts of war when they come from anyone with known leadership authority. They should be met with deadly force, imo.

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2. Because unreasonable over reaction needs to be countered with unreasonable over reaction ...

... being them will beat them. Lets commit collateral damage on a population already suffering from an unreasonably over reactive leadership. As if we haven't already droned members of the Iranian government and collaborated with the Israelis to drone/shoot/blow up others.

I thought we weren't them.

[EX500rider]

3. What civilian collateral damage was there....

....from the US bombing Iran's Fordow and Natanz enrichment facilities and the Isfahan nuclear research center?

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4. Civilian technicians.

[EX500rider]

5. Did the attacks happen during office hours? I doubt it.

And I have little pity for people trying to help the Mullah's get nukes anyway.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[marble falls]

7. Caste a net small enough and you'll only catch minnows. Soooo the Iranian nuclear program only works ...

... bankers hours and those missiles hit no PhDs or Revolutionary Guard, only the cleaning crew and gauge watchers. Thanks for making my point.

How about when the US struck a bomb shelter in Bagdad and killed a 140 mainly women and children, or shot down an Iranian airliner, or targeted a cruise missile in Kabul during Joe Biden's very well executed withdrawal and chopped up a car with civilians in it? Or the time Israel missiled an apartment in Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon and killed 10 or more women and children in their sleep (we'll ignore the over 450 other civilians in the attack). Or when we helped Israel use a robot machine gun to kill an Iranian politician - and his wife.

We will reap what we sow.

[EX500rider]

10. Is your point war is messy?

Are there any wars where civilians weren't killed?

[gulliver]

11. We're not "them" in any way.

Obama was a big user of drones, and, unfortunately, I have to agree with his decisions. Most Americans do, I'm sure.

Someone who issues a fatwa needs deletion. The fatwa-issuers are "them." We're not them.

[lame54]

6. Giving Trump ideas

[iemanja]

9. Just what I was going to write.

[Mosby]

8. Satellite Photos Reveal Iran's Devastating Water Crisis

The capital's reserves from nearby dams have plunged to historic lows, threatening millions of residents. Masoud Pezeshkian, the country's president, recently warned that without urgent conservation, Tehran could face severe shortages in the coming weeks

"There won't be any water in dams by September or October" if consumption is not reduced, Pezeshkian said.

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-tehran-water-crisis-satellite-image-2112832

[Melon]

12. Fuck the Ayatollah....

When I worked in the Middle East, I met many Persians. Most of the people were great. They hated their government.