Accountability Needed To End Executions And Prevent Another Massacre In Iran, MPs And Peers Say

Oct 31, 2025

The British Committee for Iran Freedom (BCFIF) issued the following press release on Tuesday following a meeting in the Parliament addressing the escalating executions in Iran:

At a meeting in Parliament on Tuesday, cross-party MPs and Peers called for immediate intervention and stronger accountability measures to stop executions in Iran. They urged urgent international action to save the lives of political prisoners on death row, including 17 at imminent risk for their affiliation with Iran’s democratic opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi, attended and addressed the meeting virtually. She thanked members from both Houses of the UK Parliament for supporting the Iranian people in their struggle to secure justice and establish a truly democratic republic and said:

“We call on governments and the United Nations to put pressure on this regime to accept an international delegation to meet the people sentenced to death and to inspect the torture centres and the sham courts.

“The policy of relentless executions is now meeting strong resistance from Iranian society.”

Families of regime victims from the Anglo-Iranian community also addressed the meeting, testifying to their ordeals and the human cost of the regime’s repression.

The meeting with cross-party MPs and Peers:

- noted that more than 2,000 executions have been carried out since Masoud Pezeshkian took office last year, while

- stressed that senior officials have publicly called for another mass execution campaign reminiscent of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners.

- welcomed the UK Government’s stated commitment to hold the Iranian regime accountable and urged it to lead international efforts to save lives and prevent another massacre.

- called on the UK Government to secure international accountability, including through a dedicated UN mechanism, the application of universal jurisdiction, and targeted human rights sanctions to stop executions.

- paid tribute to the courage of political prisoners who continue to resist executions inside Iran’s prisons.

- stressed that the long-term solution to end executions in Iran lies in supporting the pro-democracy forces advocating a free, democratic and secular republic.

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