The reign of terror in the Islamic Republic of Iran deepens. Eighty percent of political prisoners executed in the world during the last year were from Iran. Anyone deemed an enemy of the state can be summarily executed without a trial. Ethnic minorities are targeted, too. So are homosexuals. And now the European Parliament has called on Iran to end its executions and release political prisoners.
More on this reign of terror, and the ineffectual European efforts to end it, can be found here: “European Parliament Slams Iran Over Surge in Executions, Brutal Repression,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, May 21, 2026:
European lawmakers have stepped up pressure on Iran amid mounting alarm over the country’s human rights situation, marked by a surge in executions, mass arrests, and an intensifying security crackdown, warning of what they described as a growing campaign of repression.
On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, adopted a resolution — 516 votes in favor, 14 against, 92 abstentions — calling on the Islamist regime to immediately halt executions, release political prisoners, and hold officials accountable for alleged human rights violations.
The newly adopted resolution also voiced deep concern over escalating pressure on women, civil society activists, and religious minorities, warning of a widening climate of intimidation, surveillance, and systematic restrictions on basic freedoms across the country….
Since March 17, at least 36 people have been executed in Iran on political charges.
Earlier this year, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), an independent monitoring group, released a report outlining a deeply troubling human rights situation all across the country over the past 12 months, citing crackdowns on protesters, harassment of activists, threats to minorities, executions of children, violations of women’s rights, and dire prison conditions.
According to HRANA’s Statistics and Documentation Center, 78,907 people were arrested on ideological or political grounds from March 2025 to March 2026, highlighting a pervasive climate of repression across the country.
But the report warned that the number of arrests was likely much higher, given the difficulty of tracking such cases — especially earlier this year during recent nationwide anti-government protests, which security forces violently crushed, leaving thousands of demonstrators tortured or killed.
HRANA reported in February that over 7,000 protesters, including hundreds of children, were killed during the protests, with an additional nearly 12,000 cases still under verification. Multiple reports have put the death toll at over 30,000, and US President Donald Trump claimed the figure was over 40,000….
The larger figure, of over 40,000 killed on Jan. 8 and 9, comes from Iran International, a well-informed group of Iranians in exile who base that number on reports from inside Iran.
On women’s rights, HRANA reported that 105 women were murdered, including seven so-called “honor killings” — murders committed under the pretext of preserving family honor — and documents 68 cases of rape or sexual abuse.
Some women have been killed, such as Mahsa Amini, simply for not wearing their hijabs correctly. Other women have been killed for such “crimes” against the family honor as being out with an unrelated male.
Members of the ethnic minorities, like the Kurds and Azeris, can also be killed for supposedly posing a threat to rule by the dominant Persians. Political dissidents deserve death as they are a threat to the regime. Homosexuals are hung for their crimes against nature.
The fanatics in Iran will not stop. They are determined to crush any conceivable dissent, and to strictly enforce the Sharia. The European Parliament’s denunciation is sloughed off in Tehran. The only way to end the reign of terror is to change the regime, as the Israelis had initially insisted must be done. But Trump has decided that that is no longer one of his war aims; he will be content if he can obtain a guarantee from Iran to give up its 440 kg. of uranium enriched to a just-below weapons-grade level of 60%. Still worse, he has cut Israel out of the negotiations. Meanwhile, the miserable people of Iran will have to endure their torment, until that moment when the economic collapse of the country becomes so severe that millions of Iranians will again take to the streets, and this time their numbers will overwhelm those of the Basij and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who are sent out to crush them.
somehistory says
Ghouls are gonna’ do what ghouls are gonna’ do. and the irnaian muzzies in control are ghouls doing their father’s “desires.”
Meanwhile,
“117 Democrats vote against Tlaib’s Lebanon war powers measure
Story by Hailey Bullis and Lauren Green, Washington Examiner’
“House Democratic leadership, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), opposed the measure, exposing a rift between leadership and progressive members. Ultimately, 117 Democrats joined 205 Republicans in voting against the measure.’
Stive says
Trump likers, tell me what you think of this creature exactly one year from now.
40 rounds says
How am I supposed to think of this “creature” one year from now? I am not a soothsayer or fortune teller
somehistory says
So many want him dead, and many continually report on his *health*….in a negative way…who can say what will be six months from now?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I don’t want him dead by any means. But I’d like him to stop focusing on the Middle East at all: pull US troops out if that makes his base happy. Just stop interfering in what Israel does in Iran, Lebanon & other places in the region
࿗Infidel࿘ says
I’ve already soured on the man. He’s only a tad better than the Tucker Carlsons, the Candace Owens, the Nick Fuentes’ and Megyn Kelly who’d rather declare war on Israel rather than Iran
But I think there is a half-way turnabout that he can do to satisfy both factions:
⮞ Pull out the US Navy & other forces out of Hormuz completely. At least the Tuckers won’t get to say that Israel is fighting this to the last American: as it is, it’s the Gulf countries that are benefiting from US presence there, not Israel
⮞ Give Israel the green signal to do anything it wants on its own, w/o any US involvement. As per the US-Israel “aid” conditions, continue selling Israels the munitions it needs to destroy the IRGC, Basij, Hizbullah, Houthis, et al, but don’t participate militarily
That way, Israel can work w/ Reza Pahlavi (who ought to by now move to Tel Aviv from Maryland) on taking over power, and destroying what’s left of the IRGC, thereby satisfying the Ben Shapiros and the Dave Rubins of the MAGA movement. In the meantime, since US troops are no longer there, at least the MTGs and the Rand Pauls should be happy that we are no longer there
Finally, one thing I disagree w/ Hugh on: their liberation. At some point, the Iranians need to stop blindly listening to Pahlavi and return to the streets again. Try to loot Basij & IRGC munitions. Yeah, some will die, but no revolution is completely bloodless (except the Russian Revolution of 1991 that had 3 Moscovites as casualties) and the Iranian people need to earn their freedom, not get it handed on a platter by either US or Israeli troops. Their economy – it already takes some million Iranian Rials to equal a dollar: how different will it be if it’s 2 or 3 million? They have nothing to lose, so just take to the streets and liberate every Iranian city on the map – Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kermanshahr, Ahvaz, et al
If they’re going to wait for Trump to do something, they’ll wait forever until his term ends and we have a President AOC, who’ll work on restoring the mullahs their power. Just ignore Trump’s “truths” and go ahead and demolish the remnants of theis regime: it’s weak enough as it is. Israel might</em be able to help you if given the go-ahead by Trump, but there's only so much that even they can do!
40 rounds says
I agree with much of what you write. Still like Trump but the blowhard in him is exhausting. Hopefully something behind the scenes is happening in Iran that we don’t know about because I’m tired of hearing everyday that a deal is in the works. I think Trump thinks he can outmaneuver everyone when it comes to deal making –we shall see
Walter Sieruk says
The Iranian people do have every righteous and just right to rise up together to overthrow that brutal cruel opressive and murderous horrendously evil tyrannical Islamic regime of Iran. Then after that horrific tyranny is destroyed, the people of Iran will then be free to establish a legitimate, genuine , government that ensures and respects the basic natural human rights of its citizens.
Walter Sieruk says
What is needed regarding that horrific tyranny of Iran is the use of a strong power of the might of a US military force ,to finish the job, by getting it over with eliminating that dangerous hostile menacing tyrannical Islamic regime once and for all. As it had been ,rightly and wisely , said “Half- measures in war is madness and folly.”
Cynthia says
The horrors of Islam are unfathomable. Not only are they tearing down western civilization at every turn, these Iranian fanatics torture and kill their own people.
Horatio says
Cynthia, Trump is unconcerned about these horrors. He only wants to make a nuclear deal with Iran. Meanwhile, according to the Geller Report, Russia and Iran have made a huge nuclear deal.
Walter Sieruk says
That Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran is and always was since its very beginning a horrendous violator of human rights, especially females, both girls and women, even the most basic human rights of the Iranian people. Since those tyrants in power in Iran care nothing ,at all , for the humans rights as in lives and safety of the people of Iran , how much less do they care ,if even possible, about the lives and safely of the people of other countries.
Furthermore, that Islamic tyranny of Iran is based in the foundation of false and empty promises. As well as lying words of Ayatollah Khomeini After the fiendish Muslim clerics obtained total power in Iran they showed their true colors by having their Islamic state police who are called the “Revolutionary Guards truest the people on Iran in many heinously brutal and ruthless ways. As, for example, their brutal, callous misogyny against both girls and women. This thesis statement is explained, in some detail, by the following.
, That tyrannical Islamic regime in Iran that so falsely and inappropriately has the word “republic” in its title. It should be made known that this called the “Iranian Revolution” turned out to be a hoax. Ayatollah Khomeini before achieving power in Iran in his lying and deceptions presented himself to the Iranian people as if he was someone who would be in power would give freedom to the people of Iran with any tyranny. The reality turned out to be just the opposite.
As explained by a former Muslim as well as a man who took part in this Islamic “revolution “ ,who is now a Christian informs the reader of his book that “Prior to the Revolution no one ever imagined that other political parties would be suppressed under the rule of Ayatollah Khomeini. He had promised that all groups would have freedom to run their own campaigns after the Revolution. He even stated that governing system would be based on the decision of the people via a referendum. He never spoke of a system that would be governed by Islam. He even made clear that mullahs would not take part in any political activities, and that they would only be allowed to teach spirituality… Immediately after the Revolution, mullahs rushed into government offices to occupy the most important political l positions, making it difficult for the interim secular government to function … The mullah’s occupation of position was exactly the opposite to what the Ayatollah Khomeini had promised before the Revolution.”. [1]
In other words, the insincere, disingenuous and outright lying Ayatollah Khomeini made many bogus promise he really had no intention of keeping. His lying deception worked, for he achieved great power in Iran.
Furthermore, of the many heinously evils outcomes of that Islamic “revolution” is the extremely cruel, brutal and demonic misogyny of this hideous Islamic regime. Not only against women but even young girls.
As explained by a former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who defected to the West and how now lives in America his book also informs the reader about the malicious and murderous affront girls in Iran’s Evin prison which reads that those in power ,the “paraded teenage girls in front in front of me as they led them to their deaths. These girls were barely out of their childhood, barely old enough to think of themselves, much less form thoughts against the state. They knew nothing about the machinations of politics. They were innocent in every sense of the word and certainty innocent of trumped –up charges that led to their imprisonment. Yet they suffered fates too brutal for even the most vicious criminal. ..Their few remaining moments of life had been filled with the level of abuse that few can imagine”
The author further states “They tortured and killed young girls, in God’s name and before their execution they raped them because they believed that if a girl dies virgin, she will go to heaven, and they wanted to deny them this reward.” [2]
This is as malice -filled cruel brutal oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, since it took power in Iran it thrives on installing fear on the Iranian people.
First, the Bible reads, “All the days of the oppressed are wretched.” Proverbs 15:15. [N.I.V.]
Second, Benjamin Franklin had printed a very true statement in his periodical Poor Richard’s Almanac which may apply to that horrendous tyrannical regime of Iran. It’s “Those who are feared are also hated.”
One important this to understand that since that brutal .cruel oppressive and murderous Islamic regime of Iran was built on a bedrock of lies as well as false and empty and unkempt promises its footing is based on a foundation of sand, therefore the collapse of that hostile horrific and horrendous Islamic tyranny of Iran will be inevitable.
[1] ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND by Daniel Shayesteh . Pages 90, 91
[2] A TIME TO BETRAY by Reza Kahlili. Pages 2,3. 117.
Walter Sieruk says
The Iranian people are right and justified for hating that brutal cruel oppressive and even murderous Islamic tyrannical regime of Iran
For example, the many arrest and imprisonment and even execution of people , repeatedly, who had peacefully protested that “mullah tyranny” of Iran only further exposes the weak ,fearful and intolerant nature of those in power in the oppressive and brutal “mullah regime “ of Iran.
Therefore, the Iranians people are more than justified in wanting that brutal cruel oppressive Islamic tyranny to be overthrown and replaced with a genuine government.
As a former Muslim revealed an important reality when he wrote “The Islamic republic of Iran exists and operates as what every fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …” He further exposes that “What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premise; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1]
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 347.
Walter Sieruk says
That horrific Islamic tyranny of Iran is evil in sense of that word.
For that horrifically, cruel oppressive malicious and murderous Islamic regime of Iran, denies the Iranian, people their basic natural human rights. As in consequence the people of Iran would and should revolt against that viciously brutal tyrannical “’mullah regime” of Iran.
Accordingly, the Iranian people are right and righteous by engaging in bitter and strong protests against those cruel malicious and murderous tyrants in power of that cruel and oppressive Sharia based dictatorship of that Islamic regime of Iran.
In other words, those vicious despots of that horrendously horrific Islamic regime have provoked the people excessively too far.
In addition, some of the people who trapped in and forced to exist in the Islamic dictatorship of Iran might not know about the intellect philosopher John Locke, but his ideas do apply to them. For Mr. Locke taught that any good government has the duty to ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Yet when a tyranny is the people in the tyrannical government do have every natural and ethical right to overthrow that terrible and oppressive tyrannical government.
Troybeam says
The leaders of Iran have instilled fear so that the people remain sheep.
The people should not wait for America or Israel to stop the regime, they have the means and the way to fight back yet they do not, much like sheep waiting for the guard dog to kill the wolf.
The people must make a stand or they will be killed for just being a citizen the government can kill it will as they have been doing.
Freedom is never free it takes sacrifice to win, many lives lost to gain freedom this is something the people of Iran refuse to see and enact.