Iran | Executions in Babolsar, Gorgan, Saveh, Kermanshah, Sari

Hossein Momeni, a 32-year-old man convicted of murdering his wife, has been executed in Babolsar Central Prison in Mazandaran Province.

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Momeni, a resident of Babolsar, was executed at dawn on Monday, November 9, 2026.

Hengaw sources said Momeni was arrested approximately three years and seven months earlier, on March 30, 2023, on charges of strangling his wife, Seyedeh Fatemeh Zahra Hashemi, with a rope in the Ajak Sar area of Babolsar. He was subsequently sentenced to death following judicial proceedings.

Iranian state media and official authorities have not announced the execution. However, local Telegram channels have reported it without disclosing the prisoner's identity.

Executions in Gorgan, Saveh

Iranian authorities executed two prisoners, Ebrahim Bazi and Reza Rezakanlou, in Gorgan Central Prison and Saveh Central Prison, respectively. Both had previously been sentenced to death on charges of “premeditated murder.”

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Ebrahim Bazi, 42, a father of two, was executed in Gorgan Central Prison in Golestan Province on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.

Sources familiar with the case said Bazi was arrested approximately six years ago following an altercation with his neighbor that began as a verbal dispute and escalated into a stabbing. He was subsequently sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Bazi turned himself in to judicial authorities after the incident and maintained throughout his imprisonment that he had never intended to kill his neighbor.

Separately, Reza Rezakanlou, a Turkish prisoner from Gharghabad in Markazi Province, was executed in Saveh Central Prison on Monday, November 9, 2026. He had previously been arrested and sentenced to death on murder charges.

Neither execution has been reported by Iranian state media or officially announced by the authorities.

Execution in Kermanshah

Iranian authorities have executed Ershad Abbasi, a Kurdish prisoner from Salas Babajani, in Kermanshah (Kermashan) Central Prison, also known as Dizel Abad Prison, following his conviction for “premeditated murder.”

According to information received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, the execution was carried out at dawn on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.

Hengaw sources said Abbasi was arrested approximately two years ago by security and law enforcement forces on charges of “premeditated murder” and subsequently sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Neither Iranian state media nor official sources have announced his execution.

Execution in Sari

Mohammad Mehdi Hamzeh, a 21-year-old man from Neka, Mazandaran Province, has been executed at Sari Central Prison after being sentenced to death under Iran’s qisas (retributive justice) laws on murder charges.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Hamzeh, a resident of Barijan village in Neka County, was executed at dawn on Monday, November 9, 2026, at Sari Central Prison.

Sources familiar with the case told Hengaw that Hamzeh was arrested approximately two years earlier, when he was just 19, on charges of killing a father and son identified as Reza and Pezhman during an altercation in Neka. He was subsequently sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary.

Neither Iranian state media nor official authorities have publicly announced his execution.

Source: Hengaw, Staff, November 9-12, 2026

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