# Iran’s execution tally remains high in the first months of Pezeshkian’s presidency

Date: 2024

## The fact

In 2024–25 Iran’s judiciary continued a high execution tally documented by UN special rapporteurs and rights groups after [Pezeshkian](/people/masoud-pezeshkian)’s inauguration. He did not gazette an execution moratorium.

## Context

The judiciary answers to the Leader more than to the president. Neighbouring hijab non-repeal is a parallel rights file. A president who can pardon some and does not freeze the docket owns a share of continued practice.

[Hijab](/people/riad-hijab) 2024 is neighbouring social-rights non-repeal. 2026 wartime crackdowns are later interior.

The President of Iran is head of the executive, not commander-in-chief of the IRGC or the armed forces. That command sits with the Supreme Leader. Pezeshkian does not write IAEA Board resolutions, [US Treasury](/organizations/us-treasury) designations, or Israeli cabinet strike orders. An IRGC operation is not automatically his Fact.

## Evidence and sources

United Nations human rights system carries the official instrument or communique. Amnesty International records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is justice: a completed high execution tally without a presidential moratorium is a rights cost on the executive that could have sought a freeze.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 2024–25 continued high execution tally after inauguration, independently documented.

Not established: that he personally sentenced each prisoner, or a unique later crime-rate coefficient from the gallows.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The judiciary hanged. The Leader’s office outranked. UN rapporteurs counted.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Iran’s execution tally remains high in the first months of Pezeshkian’s presidency, not a later speech about Iran’s execution tally remains high in the first months of Pezeshkian’s presidency.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Iran’s execution tally remains high in the first months of Pezeshkian’s presidency on 2024-12-31 is not a licence to treat every later United Nations human rights system communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Iran’s execution tally remains high in the first months of Pezeshkian’s presidency into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He did not gazette a moratorium. The judiciary hanged. The Leader’s office outranked. UN rapporteurs counted. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Masoud Pezeshkian: https://factrail.ai/people/masoud-pezeshkian

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion
- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/04/global-recorded-executions-hit-their-highest-figure-since-2015/
- https://www.ohchr.org/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ir-executions-2024