THIS is the chilling moment Iran’s tyrants hang a murderer from a crane in front of a grim, cheering crowd of locals and children.
Sajad Molayi Hakani was killed in the city of Kordkuy, Golestan after being found guilty of robbery and murdering a mum and her three kids in October.
This is the haunting moment a man is hanged in front of a cheering crowd
Crowds of locals and children gathered to watch the horrific event unfold
He was sentenced to qisas, which means retaliation in kind in Islamic law, with his wife also due to be executed in prison at a later date.
Haunting footage shows the man standing on a platform with a noose around his neck as crowds gather to watch the horrific event.
The rope is attached to the crane, which appears to be controlled by a member of the execution team.
It comes as rattled supreme leader Ali Khamenei ordered a surge in executions – turning hangings into public spectacles in a chilling warning to dissidents.
Iran has repeatedly unleashed lethal force on its own people – especially at times of crisis – in a sickening bid to stamp out rebellion.
Executions and arrests are weaponised to scare dissidents, and it is feared panicked Ayatollah Khamenei is planning a similar plot to the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.
The regime was also in turmoil that year after accepting a ceasefire with Iraq.
Chillingly, state-run Fars News Agency – a mouthpiece of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – last month issued a public call to repeat 1998’s inhumane massacre as the regime fears for its survival.
British politicians and leading human rights lawyers have urged the UK government to intervene to prevent such an atrocity.
Alongside the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), they also criticised the focus on Tehran’s nuclear programme, warning that it has overshadowed the worsening human rights crisis.
Baroness O’Loan DBE said: “Those threatening our national security are the same individuals planning atrocities in Iran’s prisons. So, we must act, now.”
Dowlat Nowrouzi, the NCRI’s UK representative, told The Sun: “The international community’s failure to hold the regime accountable for its atrocities, including crimes against humanity and genocide, has allowed the regime to enjoy impunity.
“It is long overdue to hold Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, and others accountable for committing these crimes.”
Earlier this year, Saeed Masouri, who spent 25 years behind bars, also revealed how the execution rate has spiralled.
In June alone, the regime’s merciless killing spree saw at least 176 inmates sent to the gallows.
Masouri, who was arrested for his affiliation with the resistance unit People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, revealed the secret process behind executions.
Psychological torture, threats against family and sham trials are all used as tools by the regime to condemn its enemies to death on trumped-up charges.
Defendants – and their lawyers – are often even denied access to their own files, making it near impossible to be cleared.
Hossein Abedini, deputy director of the NCRI offices in the UK, said paranoid rules were hellbent on stamping out repression.
He told The Sun: “Executions under the clerical regime contravene all internationally recognised standards and norms of due process and are fundamentally used as a political instrument of repression.
“Faced with deep-rooted crises stemming from illegitimacy, corruption, and incompetence, and driven by fear of popular uprisings and nationwide protests, this regime has resorted to increasing executions.
“It employs inhumane pressures on political prisoners, torturing and harassing them and their families.
“As a result, the rate of executions in Iran is rising at an unprecedented level in recent decades, with death sentences issued even for political prisoners arrested during the September 2022 uprising.”
Iran ramps up executions
by Katie Davis, Chief Foreign Reporter (Digital)
PARANOID Iranian leaders are hellbent on ramping up repression on home turf in a dramatic bid to stamp out rebellion, insiders say.
It comes as Iran’s regime has been left red-faced by the downfall of Syria’s dictatorship as well as severe defeats of its terror proxies.
Executions are said to be taking place every couple of hours as Iran slaughters its people in “unprecedented numbers”.
Iran has one of the most horrific human rights records in the world, and according to campaigners also holds the harrowing title for the highest execution rate.
The Sun previously revealed how dozens of people had been sentenced to death by stoning just for adultery.
Harrowing records leaked from Iran’s torturous prisons also showed how thousands were holed up on death row for petty crimes.
In 2024, the Iranian regime ramped up the executions of its own people – including women, children and political prisoners.
Official records show that the number of executions last year reached 1,000 – the highest number in 30 years and 16 percent higher than the previous.
Of those on record, 34 were women and seven were under 18 at the time of their so-called crimes.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) fears the true toll is much higher as many of the deaths are kept secret, however.
Most of the surging executions are by hanging, but there is also evidence of other medieval torture punishments including public flogging, limb-removal and eye-gouging.