{"id":48915,"date":"2026-04-30T03:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48915"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:23:29","slug":"irans-wartime-executions-podcast-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=48915","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s wartime executions &#8211; podcast | Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Iran has hanged 18 political prisoners during the last six weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Chief reporter <strong>Dan Boffey <\/strong>tells the stories of some of the condemned and their families, describing a system of vague charges, unfair trials, and a whole judicial process rushed through under the cover of war. It is as though, he tells <strong>Annie Kelly<\/strong>, the regime is letting the Iranian people know it is still in control, despite the US-Israeli strikes and the death of so many in the leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Annie hears, too, from <strong>Reza Younesi<\/strong>, whose father and brother are in Iran\u2019s prison system, about his fears of what the war could mean for them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span> Photograph: Screengrab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has hanged 18 political prisoners during the last six weeks. Chief reporter Dan Boffey tells the stories of some of the condemned and their families, describing a system of vague charges, unfair trials, and a whole judicial process rushed through under the cover of war. It is as though, he tells Annie Kelly, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[22227,84,218,515,13344],"class_list":{"0":"post-48915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-executions","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-irans","11":"tag-podcast","12":"tag-wartime"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}