Iran has executed a man identified as Qaim Hosseini, a foreign national of undisclosed nationality, over his alleged participation in anti-government protests in Isfahan (Iran's third-largest city) on 8 January, according to the judiciary's Mizan news agency. Hosseini, also known as "Arian," was accused of being present at Ali Khani Square during clashes in which four security personnel were killed; authorities said he confessed to kicking the bodies of dead officers and carrying a weapon. He is the fifth person executed in connection with that incident, and his death comes amid a sharp escalation in Iran's use of capital punishment — rights group the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran reports at least 901 executions so far in 2026, while the UN has repeatedly raised concerns over forced confessions and the suppression of dissent through the death penalty.