{"id":313985,"date":"2026-04-05T22:50:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=313985"},"modified":"2026-04-05T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:20:49","slug":"iran-executes-nine-protesters-in-seven-days-including-teenager-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/05\/iran-executes-nine-protesters-in-seven-days-including-teenager-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes nine protesters in seven days including teenager | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Mohammad Amin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast Kolor (Picture: Iran Human Rights)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Iran executed nine protesters in seven days this week, including a teen who was hanged after being \u2018tortured\u2019 into confession, his lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Amin Biglari, 19, and Shahin Vahedparast Kolor, 30, were hanged on Sunday after being convicted of attacking a military base during protests in January, in line with Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO).<\/p>\n<p>The boys were amongst no less than nine political prisoners executed in Iran for the reason that end of March including six members of the dissident People\u2019s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK).<\/p>\n<p>4 more people being tried in the identical case are still on death row within the country and are said to be facing imminent execution.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-05-113307-9c70.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27864815\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Amirhossein Hatami and Mohammad Amin Biglari, pictured at their trial.\u00a0(Picture: Iran Human Rights)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biglari\u2019s lawyer said he was denied access to the person and that the confession used to convict him was \u2018highly questionable\u2019 for a 19-year-old who had grown up without parental support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forced confessions, which were broadcast on Iranian state media ten days after the defendants\u2019 arrest, called them \u2018deceived youth\u2019 led by \u2018American-Zionist terrorist elements.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The hangings happened at Ghezel Hesar prison, a notorious and sprawling jail sanctioned by Western countries for torture.<\/p>\n<p>IHRNGO, which monitors executions in Iran, said the killings were a part of a deliberate plan by the regime to bury dissent under the duvet of its current war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/%24\/35d3734f-1e29-4d0b-a646-15776be08249\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120px\" class=\"metro-iframe iframe-autoheight \" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" name=\"69d299f09c5e3\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_291911495-bf3c.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27864780\" alt=\"EXECUTED: Amirhossein Hatami . PARADED before court in the striped blue prison shirts of the condemned, the two teenage boys fidgeted anxiously, their eyes wide with fear. Erfan Amiri, 17, and Ehsan Hesarlu, 18, had already 'confessed' to arson during January's anti-regime protests following weeks of abuse at the hands of the Iranian police. While their 'fast-tracked, torture tainted' trial broadcast to the nation from the Revolutionary Court in Tehran is still ongoing, human rights groups warn without help they will join dozens of men already sentenced to death. Just this week, 18-year-old musician Amirhossein Hatami was hanged for the same crime. Four others - Mohammad Amin Biglari, 19, Ali Fahim, 23, Abolfazl Salehi Siavashani, 51, and Shahin Vahedparast Kolor, 30 - have been moved to pre-execution solitary confinement.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Just this week, 18-year-old musician Amirhossein Hatami was hanged for a similar crime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Its director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said the regime\u2019s biggest threat was not foreign military attacks but \u2018the Iranian people demanding fundamental change.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Their sentence was based on torture-tainted confessions they usually were tried in grossly unfair proceedings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Prior to now seven days alone, no less than nine political prisoners, including six MEK members and three protesters, have been executed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018These day by day executions, carried out under the shadow of war, are a part of a deliberate policy to terrorise the Iranian people and forestall latest protests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Islamic Republic\u2019s fundamental threat is just not foreign bombs, it&#8217;s the Iranian people demanding fundamental change.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, told <strong>Metro:<\/strong> \u2018Fearing an organised internal opposition and a brand new rebellion, the Iranian regime is attempting to crush the movement before it grows further.<\/p>\n<p>\u20184 a long time of concessions by the West have did not curb the regime\u2019s nuclear ambitions, missile programmes, or regional terrorism. As a substitute, this inaction has given the regime the impunity to massacre political prisoners.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International warned in February that children and young adults made up the majority of those arrested after the January protests and called the Iranian court system a \u2018conveyor belt for executions\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The rights group said defendants were often denied access to lawyers, tortured and held in isolation to extract forced confessions.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Iran war general\u2019s niece living lifetime of luxury in LA<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"363\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEC_292106809-c30d.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27862647\" alt=\"Two pictures of the same woman, who has black hair and is posing for the camera. One has a dog.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar were arrested on Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The executions got here because the grand-niece of the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani was pictured living a glamorous lifestyle in\u00a0Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Sarinasadat Hosseiny, 25, and her mother, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar were arrested after their\u00a0US\u00a0everlasting resident status was revoked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio over ties to the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n<p>Hosseiny had been living within the US since 2015, when she first entered the country on a student visa, before getting everlasting residency through the Biden administration in 2023.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"565\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_292106423-7590.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=565\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27862605\" alt=\"A woman with black hair poses\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Sarinasadat Hosseiny was the grand-niece of the powerful commander<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite her family\u2019s ties to the Iranian regime, Hosseiny\u2019s\u00a0social media\u00a0presence showed a life at odds with it.<\/p>\n<p>Posts showed her travelling across the US, visiting Miami,\u00a0Las Vegas\u00a0and Alaska, in addition to laughing and smiling at music festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Other images showed her aboard private aircraft and yachts and wearing clothes that might be forbidden under Iranian law, including bikinis and miniskirts.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother had called America the \u2018Great Devil\u2019 in social media posts as she lived in California, in addition to espousing support for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a chosen terror organisation, in line with the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Each women\u2019s green cards were revoked hours before ICE arrested them in LA on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in contact with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><strong>check our news page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: ICE arrest Iran warlord\u2019s niece living her best life in Los Angeles<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Trump drops F-bomb and says \u2018Praise to Allah\u2019 in wildest social media post yet<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: US fighter jet crew member rescued after being shot down in Iran, Trump says<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card accent--news\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card__inner\">\n<h4>News Updates<\/h4>\n<p>Stay on top of the headlines with day by day email updates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Amin Biglari and Shahin Vahedparast Kolor (Picture: Iran Human Rights) Iran executed nine protesters in seven days this week, including a teen who was hanged after being \u2018tortured\u2019 into confession, his lawyer said. 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