{"id":15195,"date":"2026-08-17T16:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=15195"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T13:03:31","slug":"iran-executes-man-for-killing-police-in-protest-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/iran-executes-man-for-killing-police-in-protest-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Executes Man for Killing Police in Protest Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shahram Sadeghi<\/strong> was accused of deliberately driving a car into law enforcement personnel on January 8 in Karaj, resulting in injuries to seven officers. One of the wounded officers reportedly remained in a coma for three months following the incident, Iran&#8217;s semi-official Tasnim news agency stated.<\/p>\n<p>The Karaj Revolutionary Court handed down a death sentence to Sadeghi along with the confiscation of his personal assets. Iranian authorities characterized the act as an &#8220;operational action&#8221; carried out in support of Israel, the United States, and hostile groups, prosecuting him under the country&#8217;s espionage legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court of Iran upheld the conviction and sentence. The execution was carried out in the early hours of Sunday morning, judiciary officials confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The case highlights the Iranian regime&#8217;s continued crackdown on dissent and protest movements, with authorities frequently invoking national security and espionage charges against those accused of participating in anti-government activities. Human rights organizations have repeatedly criticized Tehran&#8217;s use of capital punishment in politically motivated cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran executed Shahram Sadeghi for ramming his vehicle into police officers during anti-government protests in Karaj, injuring seven officers including one left in a coma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":15194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[10724,96,11824,11826,10726,11825],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-15195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-execution","tag-iran","tag-karaj","tag-protest-crackdown","tag-revolutionary-court","tag-shahram-sadeghi","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15199,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions\/15199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}