Iran
2026
STATUSRetentionist
EXECUTIONS 2026869
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- theocratic republic
- CONSTITUTION
- December 1979, revised in 1989 to extend presidential power
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- based on Sharia law
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majles-e-Shura-ye-Eslami)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court
RELIGIONS
Shia majority; 10% Sunni; Christian, Jewish, Bahá'í, and Zoroastrian minorities
From the country
NOVEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Ghezel-Hesar on November 4
NOVEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Protesters Hamid Kazemi and Hassan Divand sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Protester” Matin Shabani Sentenced to Death in Mashhad
- NOVEMBER 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Protester Amir Delshad Sentenced to Death
NOVEMBER 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arman Marefati’s death sentence confirmed
A ‘protester’
NOVEMBER 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - “Protester” Vahid Khodrikhah Sentenced to Death in Mashhad
NOVEMBER 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Political Prisoner Amirhossein Mousavi Sentenced to Death for Online Activism
NOVEMBER 4, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iman Mirali and Ali Shahpasand executed in Ahvaz on November 4
NOVEMBER 3, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amirhossein Maleki and Amirhossein Ebrahimi executed in Isfahan on November 3
2 ‘protesters’
NOVEMBER 3, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Shacheri executed in Ahvaz on November 3
- NOVEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Three ‘protesters’ sentenced to death
Matin Farnian + 2
- NOVEMBER 1, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 5 men executed in Shiraz in recent days
Ehsan Sobhani, Jafar Rostamzadeh Mashhadi, Hashem Memari, Gholamhossein Yari, Mohammad Mehdi Ashraf