Iranian authorities hanged Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi at dawn on Saturday, October 3, in Shahrekord, the judiciary’s media center announced. He had been arrested during the January uprising.

According to the judiciary, Jamshidi fired a handgun at security officers on Naser Khosrow Street in Shahrekord on January 8, at the height of the protests, then fled. He was arrested two days later with a pistol in his car. The courts convicted him of moharebeh, “waging war against God,” and the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence.

A rap sheet, not a record of a trial

The judiciary’s announcement, carried by Mizan and republished across state-aligned media, devoted most of its length not to the protest case but to Jamshidi’s character. It called him one of Shahrekord’s “level-one thugs” and a “multiple-offense criminal,” and listed alleged past offenses: fraud, theft, threats, illegal weapons, kidnapping. It quoted what it presented as his confession.

What the announcement did not say is as revealing. It gave no date for his trial. It did not say whether he had a lawyer of his own choosing. It presented no evidence beyond his own reported words, in a system where confessions are routinely extracted in custody and broadcast before the accused ever sees a courtroom.

Analysis: criminalizing the uprising

The “thug” label is not incidental. It is the regime’s standard script for executing protesters: strip the act of its political meaning, recast the defendant as a common criminal, and present the hanging as public safety rather than political punishment. The same language was used for the men hanged in Isfahan’s Alikhani Square case.

Jamshidi’s hanging opened a three-day sequence. Two days later, on October 5, the judiciary hanged Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raisi in Isfahan. The same day, judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei warned officials not to “anger the people.” The two messages are not in contradiction. The regime wants calm, and it is trying to buy it with fear.