"We've been observing the human rights situation in Iran with great concern," Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam tells DW.
The Norwegian-Iranian neuroscientist is the founder of the NGO Iran Human Rights.
"The near-daily executions of political prisoners, protesters and people accused of espionage are particularly alarming," he adds.
In 2025, his organization found that Iran had executed at least 1,639 people, marking a 68% increase compared to the previous year and averaging in four to five executions per day.
Since the latest US-Israel war with Iran began in February, the Middle Eastern nation has become a focal point of global politics. Most attention is directed at geopolitical concerns, and especially at the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly a quarter of the world's crude oil and oil products were shipped before the blockade. Meanwhile, however, Iran's internal affairs have been going widely unnoticed.
