According to Saeed Madani, a sociologist and former political prisoner, four of the five defendants in a case who had been arrested on 18 and 19 Dey were executed less than three months later and only because stones were thrown from a rooftop toward the officers during the protests in Dey.

He says three of the defendants in this case did not even have a court-appointed lawyer, and they were sentenced to death without a lawyer in court, and were also denied the opportunity to have visits. Madani described Iran’s economic, social, cultural, and religious indicators as signs of “a serious collapse” and said that if the current system of governance does not back down, the result will be “a violent revolution.”