For an anonymous source currently inside Iran, the continuation of executions itself is not regarded as something new. The effect of the war inside Iran is more complicated than a simple weakening of the state. The anonymous source inside Iran described the continuing uncertainty in more restrained terms. Those estimates of arrests, death sentences and alleged torture come from Amiry-Moghaddam’s own account and are distinct from IHR’s independently documented execution statistics. The rest, I think, Iranian people will do,” he noted.