{"id":251275,"date":"2026-08-16T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/251275\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:34:08","slug":"iran-executes-man-convicted-of-running-over-police-during-january-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/251275\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran executes man convicted of running over police during January protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran executed a man convicted of deliberately driving his car into police officers during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-903982\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">anti-government protests<\/a> in the city of Karaj in January, Iran&#8217;s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Shahram Sadeghi was accused of driving a car into police officers in Karaj on January 8, injuring seven officers, one of whom was reportedly left in a coma for three months, according to Tasnim news agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Karaj Revolutionary Court sentenced Sadeghi to death and confiscation of his assets for what authorities described as an \u201coperational action\u201d in favor of Israel, the United States, and hostile groups under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-903463\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran&#8217;s espionage law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Supreme Court upheld the sentence, and it was carried out early on Sunday, according to the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The EU and 26 countries condemned Iran&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-903874\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">executions of protesters<\/a> in a joint statement, French Foreign Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The countries called on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-905049\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a> to listen to its people, take meaningful steps toward ensuring respect for human rights, immediately end the use of the death penalty, and release those arbitrarily detained.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran executed a man convicted of deliberately driving his car into police officers during anti-government protests in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[17850,11793,1722,34,5642,11363],"class_list":["post-251275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-death-penalty","tag-execution","tag-human-rights","tag-iran","tag-iran-protests","tag-iranian-protests"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117104978315248989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}