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Iran executed five men in early November, in proceedings that human rights organizations say were based on forced confessions, according to the German newspaper Die Zeit. Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh were hanged on November 8 in Karaj, a city neighboring Tehran. Five days earlier, on November 3, Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi, both 19 years old, were executed in Isfahan.
The executions come at the same time as the regime reasserts control over women’s clothing. According to Die Zeit, authorities have again made the wearing of the hijab mandatory, and Basij militia members have set up new checkpoints in Tehran to enforce the veil on the streets. The account comes from cardiologist Panteha Rezaeian, who heads an association supporting victims of the regime.
The crackdown has a recent history. An Amnesty International report published on September 16, 2026 documents cases of executions, torture and sexual violence against opponents from the 2022 protests through the massacres of January of this year. Estimates cited in the document put the number of protesters killed in January between 40,000 and 100,000. The organization identifies 87 people as responsible for serious crimes.
The domestic picture helps explain the situation of the Iranian government at a moment when the military crisis and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz dominate international attention and affect oil prices. Far from the spotlight of the war, pressure on the civilian population keeps growing.
Abroad, the Iranian diaspora has been mobilizing. In Frankfurt, Germany, tens of thousands of exiles and descendants of Iranians gathered in front of the Paulskirche, the city’s historic church, where Reza Pahlavi, son of the last shah of Iran, received the Freedom Prize of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation on behalf of the Iranian people.
The rally was also met by a counter-demonstration of a few hundred people, according to Die Zeit.
The scene in Frankfurt shows how part of the opposition abroad has sought to organize around figures of reference, while inside Iran dissent remains subject to arrests, summary trials and executions.
Reporting from Die Zeit (p. 50 (Frankfurt am Main, Teerã, Irã)).
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