HRANA – the Judiciary’s media center announced that at dawn today, April 20, two defendants named Mohammad Masoum Shahi and Hamed Validi were executed. These individuals had been sentenced to death by the Karaj Revolutionary Court on charges of “enmity against God” (moharebeh) and “cooperation with Mossad.”

Their identities have been reported by Mizan as Mohammad Masoum Shahi and Hamed Validi. According to the Judiciary’s media center, the two were tried and sentenced to death by the Karaj Revolutionary Court on charges including “enmity against God,” “cooperation with a hostile state,” “assembly and collusion against national security,” and “membership in a group with the aim of disrupting national security.”

Mizan has claimed that these individuals had been active in connection with an intelligence network prior to their arrest.

The death sentences were carried out after their appeals were rejected and the verdicts were upheld by the Supreme Court.

According to HRA’s Annual Report, in 2025 at least 2,063 citizens, including 61 women and 2 juvenile offenders, were executed. Of these, the sentences of 11 individuals were carried out in public. During the same period, 172 other individuals were sentenced to death.