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 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahab Jabari and Rahman … executed in Mashhad on October 8
OCTOBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heshmat Foroughi and Sajad Amiri executed in Shiraz on October 8
OCTOBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Behnam Niknam executed in Amol on October 8
OCTOBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Massoud Maleki executed in Isfahan on October 8
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IRAN - Seyfollah Shojaei executed in Borujerd on October 8
OCTOBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj Central on October 8
Mobin Sarvari, Mahmoud Valiollahi, Sina Mohammadi, Pedram …
- OCTOBER 8, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Masoud Maleki executed in Isfahan on October 8
OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Sabeki executed in Bam on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Arsalan Khani and Qasem Sajadi executed in Kermanshah on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farzad … executed in Qom on October 7
1213 executions in Iran in 2025
OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ebrahim Rezapour executed in Maragheh on October 7
- OCTOBER 7, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Jalal Moradi executed in Taybad on October 7