Day 150 of the WarMonday, July 27, 2026
Day 150 — Scaffolds Rise in Isfahan as Protesters Face Public Execution; the IRGC Fires Warning Shots at Six Ships in Hormuz
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Scaffolds at Alikhani Roundabout — Fears of Public Executions of January Protesters
Iran- Informed sources told Iran International an iron scaffold was installed at Isfahan's Alikhani roundabout on Monday amid a security deployment, raising fears of the public execution of several January protesters from the Alikhani case.source
- Iran International says the case has 10 defendants sentenced to death (LiveIranNews puts it at 12); the family of defendant Amirhossein Safari has been summoned to prison for a final visit.source
- Two more January protest detainees sentenced to death, Alireza Sepahi and Abolfazl Sepahi, are at imminent risk of execution, Iran International and LiveIranNews warn.source
- Aryan Valipour, a 20-year-old January protest detainee, attempted suicide in Greater Tehran Prison on Saturday after an appeals court upheld his death sentence for 'moharebeh'; his transfer to Ghezel Hesar has deepened fears, sources told Iran International.source
A Family Gunned Down on the Baneh–Marivan Road
Iran- Per human rights media cited by Iran International, IRGC intelligence forces opened fire on Mehdi Tavakoli, director of the Kurdistan Photographers' House and a former political prisoner, his sister Somayeh, and their mother Maryam Aslani on the Baneh–Marivan road on Sunday — all three were killed.source
- The three were buried on Monday under heavy security at Sanandaj's Behesht Mohammadi cemetery; Hengaw says authorities pressured the family to stay silent and call it a car accident, and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network says release of the bodies was made conditional on silence.source
- A Hashd al-Shaabi commander confirmed to Iran International that Iraqi militiamen are in southern Iran to counter a possible U.S. ground attack, while residents of Abadan, Khorramshahr, Semnan, Shahroud, and Karaj report checkpoints, car searches, and harassment of women and girls.source
The U.S. Toll and a Threat Against the First Lady
- The Pentagon updated its casualty data on Sunday, adding more than 140 wounded; the count now stands at 14 U.S. service members killed and over 400 wounded, after earlier figures of 18 killed and 482 wounded were lowered in recent days, RadioFarda reports.source
- IRGC-affiliated Tasnim published a video mapping Melania Trump's movements, favorite places, and shops, urging regime supporters to kill her; the video ends with a threat to Barron Trump that he 'should wait for us,' Iran International reports.source
- Satellite images show the fire at Saudi Aramco's Jazan refinery still burning three days after Houthi drone and missile attacks, with thick black smoke rising from a storage tank area, per LiveIranNews.source
Warning Shots in the Strait — the IRGC Turns Back Six Ships
Gulf & Naval- A state TV reporter said the IRGC Navy fired warning shots in the early hours of Monday at six vessels trying to use an 'undesignated route' through the Strait of Hormuz and stopped them; IRIB said one ship had an 'incident' and five were turned back, per Iran International.source
- State media claimed the ships had switched off their navigation and positioning systems at the U.S. military's instigation to use the 'illegal and unsafe' southern route — which RadioFarda notes runs near Oman's coast.source
- CENTCOM says the U.S. blockade against Iran has so far redirected 17 commercial vessels, disabled two, and boarded two, as USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) patrols the Arabian Sea.source
- President Trump said damage to commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz will be compensated from Iran's frozen assets in the U.S.: 'we will use Iran's own money to pay for the damages inflicted,' per LiveIranNews.source
Dossiers at the UN and Nuclear Signals From the Leader's Office
- Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told Fars that more than 120 documents on 'the role of some Persian Gulf countries in recent attacks' have been registered with the UN Security Council, and that Tehran has proposed a special tribunal for U.S. 'war crimes.'source
- Mehdi Fazaeli of the leader's office told Sputnik that Mojtaba Khamenei, like his father, does not consider negotiation forbidden — and that Iran has no technical problem building a nuclear weapon and needs only the political will, per Iran International.source
- MP Ali Khodrian of the parliament's National Security Commission said Oman cannot, for legal reasons, define and implement passage through the Strait of Hormuz without coordination with Tehran, citing a 1974 joint statement on security cooperation.source