Overview

• Iran has executed six individuals on espionage charges since mid-June, including three ethnic Kurdish men hanged in Urmia this Friday.
• Authorities have detained more than 700 people nationwide on suspicions of collaborating with Israeli intelligence, with arrests reported across Kermanshah, Isfahan, Khuzestan, Fars and Lorestan provinces.
• State media aired detainee confessions alleging ties to Mossad, MI6 and the CIA, fueling concerns that statements may have been extracted under duress.
• A US-brokered ceasefire that took effect on June 24 has curbed cross-border strikes, but Iran’s internal repression shows no sign of abating.
• Human rights groups, including Amnesty International and Hengaw, warn that secret trials, torture allegations and the looming execution of Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali reflect deep abuses.