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
OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Coordinated propaganda campaign against hunger strike in Ghezel Hesar
OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Sanaei executed in Khorramabad on October 18
OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javad Naeimi executed in Qom on October 18
A nuclear engineer charged with espionage
OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sadegh Nik-Ravesh (Sadegh Nikroush) executed in Qom on October 18
OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Khodkar executed in Rasht on October 18
OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Amini executed in Khorramabad on October 18
- OCTOBER 18, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Iran executes unidentified prisoner accused of espionage for Israel
OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hunger strike in Ghezel-Hesar Prison
Against the escalating wave of executions
OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Atash Shakarami to receive 38 lashes
- OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Cheraghi executed in Shahroud on October 16
- OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jaber Nadi (Naderi) + 1 executed in Kerman on October 16
OCTOBER 16, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Yousefi executed in Qom on October 16