Iran says it executed Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi over shots fired on 8 January

Iran's judiciary said on Saturday it had executed Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, a man detained during the January protests, for firing at police. The judiciary said he fired at least three shots on 8 January and was arrested two days later, on 10 January, with a handgun in Shahrekord, in southwestern Iran.

The same statement accused him of contacting people online to organise what it called anti-security activities, and of seeking payment for a mission. It did not name the person or service that was supposed to pay. That missing name is the part of the charge that cannot be checked from the text released on Saturday. The shooting allegation is tied to a date, a city and a weapon. The payment allegation is not tied to a payer.

The protests began on 28 December 2025 over prices and the currency, and grew into calls for an end to clerical rule. Iranian authorities have blamed armed groups and operatives backed by the United States and Israel for part of the violence. During the protests, Israeli heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu said Israel had operatives inside Iran. He said their aim was to weaken Iranian capabilities. He denied that they were working directly to bring down the leadership. His remark is on the record. It does not identify Jamshidi, and the judiciary did not cite it.

Shahrekord is the capital of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, on the plateau south of Isfahan, not a coastal or border city. An arrest there with a handgun, as the judiciary describes it, is a local policing event that the state is now presenting as part of the national protest cases. No court name, no date of sentence, and no date of execution beyond the Saturday announcement appear in the Reuters account of the judiciary text. The gap between arrest on 10 January and announcement on 3 October is almost nine months. The statement does not say when the trial was held or whether he had a chosen lawyer.

Iranian officials have continued to carry out sentences linked to the January unrest while the country is also in a wider confrontation with Israel and the United States. The execution announced on Saturday is a single named case. It does not come with a new total of protest-related death sentences. Without that total, the reader can know who was named and what he was accused of, and cannot know from this announcement how many similar files remain open.

The judiciary's wording does two jobs at once. It gives a concrete act, three shots on 8 January, and a concrete arrest, a handgun in Shahrekord on 10 January. It then adds an organisational claim, online contact and a paid mission, with the payer left blank. Human rights groups have in past years argued that protest cases in Iran are built on broad security charges. That argument is not adjudicated by Saturday's statement. The statement is the state's account, published through the judiciary and carried by Reuters.

What can be said from the text is limited and precise. A man named Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi is dead by execution, according to the judiciary. The state says he shot at police on 8 January and was held from 10 January. It says he sought money for a mission and does not say from whom. The protests that frame the case started on 28 December 2025. Any independent account of the trial is not in the dispatch.

The next fact that would change the record is a published judgment, a name of the court, or a family statement. Until one of those appears, the execution stands as an official announcement tied to one city, two January dates, and a charge that mixes a shooting with an unnamed payment.