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
AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alimorad Naseri executed in Semnan on August 26
AUGUST 26, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 83rd Week of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign
AUGUST 25, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asad Shabani executed in Nishapur on August 25
914 executions since the beginning of 2025
- AUGUST 23, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Taher Firoozi executed in Gorgan on August 23
AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in public on August 21
In Kordkuy, Golestan
- AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Man hanged in public on August 21 identified as Taghi Damghani
AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on August 21
Abdol Sabzi, Shamsollah Kheiri, Mehdi Kazemi
- AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Abdolamir Hasangol executed in Dezful on August 21
AUGUST 21, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ali Osat Akbari executed in Buin Zahra on August 21
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehsa Akbari executed in Shiraz on August 20
One day after her husband’s public execution
AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farshad Hamegan and Hossein Mokhtari executed in Rasht on August 20
- AUGUST 20, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Karimi and Taleb Rikani executed in Isfahan on August 20