IRAN - Mohammad Mehdi Hamzeh executed in Sari on November 9

November 9, 2026 - IRAN. Mohammad Mehdi Hamzeh executed in Sari on November 9

Mohammad Mehdi Hamzeh, a 21-year-old man from Neka, Mazandaran Province, has been executed.

According to information obtained by Hengaw, Hamzeh, a resident of Barijan village in Neka County, was executed at dawn on November 9, 2026, at Sari Central Prison.

Sources familiar with the case told Hengaw that Hamzeh was arrested approximately two years earlier, when he was just 19, on charges of killing a father and son identified as Reza and Pezhman during an altercation in Neka. He was subsequently sentenced to death.

Iranian state media have not publicly announced his execution.