Iran executed a record 1,000 people in 2024, almost 70 per cent of them after its new “reformist” president took office.

The killings, the most in Iran in 30 years, took place across 86 prisons and those executed included 34 women and seven juveniles.

Some 695 of them came after Masoud Pezeshkian, a wild card candidate who was thought to be more progressive, took over in August.