Iran’s hardline chief justice pushes to expedite executions against ‘the enemy’s affiliates’: ‘More verdicts must be issued’

Iran’s chief justice demanded all executions of “enemy agents” be sped up in a jarring video leaked the same day the US secured a temporary cease-fire with war-torn Tehran.

Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, a hardliner within the repressive Islamic Republic, implored the state judiciary to rush cases against “agents and affiliates of the enemy” — which includes protesters facing the death penalty.

“In cases where issuing rulings such as asset confiscation and the death penalty is warranted for enemy agents, the process should be expedited,” Mohseni-Ejei said, according to a video and translation posted by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center on Tuesday.

“More verdicts must be issued against the enemy’s affiliates.”

State media has already confirmed 14 executions by the brutal regime this year, though the Norwegian-based Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported evidence