This page keeps the memory of 22 people who were executed after the war of Khordad 1404 on charges of espionage or collaboration with Israel. The earliest execution in this list is recorded on 1 Tir 1404 and the latest on 1 Shahrivar 1405. 8 people were executed in 1404 and 14 people in 1405. The title of this page is the charge announced by the authorities; listing it here does not mean accepting it. Many of those on this page had rejected the charge, had spoken of confessions under pressure, or were executed without their family and lawyer being informed.
What the list shows
No woman whose source stated that she was a woman and no child is recorded in this list. The youngest of them was 19 years old and the oldest 55, and their median age is 29 years. Karaj with 7 names is the most frequent city, followed by Urmia with 4 and Tehran with 2 names. The day 4 Tir 1404 with 3 executions is the heaviest day; on 12 Ordibehesht, 11 Khordad and 12 Mordad 1405, 2 people were executed each time.
Some lives
Rasoul Ahmadrasoul, 44 years old, a citizen of Iraq and father of three children, had owned a company in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq for more than ten years and had come to Iran to collect money owed to him. According to the source, the intelligence office of Sardasht summoned him by telephone, and he, knowing he had committed no crime, went there himself. These words of his remain: “I had done nothing wrong; I had no suspicion about myself either. If they had called me ten more times, I would have gone, because I had done nothing.” He was executed on 4 Tir 1404 in Urmia Prison, without a last visit and without his lawyer being informed, and his body was not given to the family.
Amirhossein Hatami, 19 years old, was a student of industrial design at the University of Tehran and was fluent in three languages. He was executed on 13 Farvardin 1405 in Karaj and, according to the source, four days later his body had still not been handed over to the family; his family has denied any connection between him and the group whose name had been published. Kourosh Keyvani, whom the source calls “an intelligent person who was fluent in six languages” and who had lived in Sweden for about 10 years, was arrested on the fourth day of the Twelve-Day War. He was executed on 27 Esfand 1404 without his family's knowledge, and the agents buried him in Khavaran.
Majid Adineh, a retired military man who according to the source had helped orphaned children and the homeless for nearly two decades, was executed in Shahrivar 1405 in Karaj. Shahram Sadeghi was also executed in the early hours of 25 Mordad in Karaj on the charge of “operational action in favour of Israel, America and hostile groups”; he had said that on the evening of 18 Dey he was going from Eslamshahr to his home in Savojbolagh and that his car was stolen in Karaj. Ashkan Maleki, son of Ali, was executed in Khordad 1405 in Alborz; according to an English-language source, without prior notice to his family and lawyer.
About this list
This list is not complete. The real number of people executed on espionage charges after the war of Khordad 1404 may be higher, and we record only a name that has a source. The largest share of these 22 names comes from iranintl.com with 35 cases; followed by HRANA with 26, Iran International with 20 and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network with 9 cases. Each of these executions has at least one source, but some appear in only one report. For 11 people a description of their life is available. If you knew one of these 22 people, share your memory or correction with us.