‘Public Executions Are Extremely Rare’ in Iran, the New York Times Claims, Inaccurately

The Associated Press says "Public executions are not uncommon in Iran." The watchdog group Iran Human Rights counted 459 such executions between 2008 and 2025, frequently featuring large audiences, including children. United Against Nuclear Iran reports that Iran "regularly carries out executions in public. In many of these cases, the victim is publicly hanged from a construction crane, an especially slow and painful execution method." And that doesn't even mention the extrajudicial killings of…