TEHRAN, Iran – Iran announced on Sunday, July 27, 2025, that it has executed two members of the exiled opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK), also known as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. The men were convicted of carrying out attacks on public and civilian infrastructure.
The judiciary’s official news website, Mizan Online, reported that Behrouz Ehsani Eslamlou and Mehdi Hasani were hanged on Sunday morning. They were found guilty of using improvised mortar launchers to target residential areas, educational institutions, and government buildings.
Their executions have drawn immediate condemnation from human rights organizations. In January, Amnesty International had issued an appeal for Eslamlou and Hasani, stating that the two had been interrogated without the presence of lawyers and had been subjected “to torture and other ill-treatment, including beatings and prolonged solitary confinement, to extract self-incriminating statements.”
The Mojahedin Organization of Iran also issued a statement decrying the executions, asserting that both men had been “subjected to savage torture.” The group called for international condemnation of the executions and warned that another 14 individuals have been sentenced to death in Iran for alleged membership in the organization and “are at imminent risk of execution.”
Iranian courts had charged Eslamlou and Hasani with several offenses, including waging war against the state, conspiracy, sabotage, and membership in a terrorist organization. Prosecutors accused them of plotting to destabilize national security and damage public property.
The Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, once a Marxist-Islamist group that initially opposed Iran’s monarchy, backed the 1979 Islamic Revolution but later broke with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s government. The group carried out a series of deadly bombings and assassinations in the 1980s and notoriously supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war—stances that continue to provoke widespread resentment within Iran. The MEK is currently largely based in Albania but claims to operate a clandestine network inside Iran.
The last previously known execution of Mujahedeen-e-Khalq members took place in 2009, following their conviction in connection with an attempted bombing in Tehran’s central Enghelab Square.
Iran Executes Two Members Of Exiled Opposition Group MEK
