UN Special Rapporteur Mai Sato reported over 7,000 deaths from Iran's recent protest crackdown and more than 1,600 executions in 2025, while simultaneously condemning US and Israeli military strikes on the country as illegal.
Iran faces severe internal crises amid the war, including a UN report detailing over 7,000 deaths in protest crackdowns, nationwide banking outages, and the defection of national footballers in Australia.