Amnesty International’s latest findings on Iran’s surging executions are deeply alarming. As regional tensions with the U.S. and Israel intensify, Iranian authorities are simultaneously tightening their grip at home—using the machinery of the state to accelerate executions, suppress dissent, and instill fear.
The report underscores a disturbing pattern: external conflict is being used as justification for internal repression. Far from protecting national security, this escalation of the death penalty appears to be a tool for political control, disproportionately impacting vulnerable and marginalized communities already living under severe restrictions.
No government facing external pressure has the right to abandon due process or expand executions as a means of deterrence. The deliberate expansion of capital punishment under conditions of heightened conflict raises urgent questions about accountability, proportionality, and the protection of basic human rights.
The international community cannot treat external hostilities and internal repression as separate issues when they are so clearly intertwined. Silence in the face of this convergence only enables further abuses.
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