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
- DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Shah-Bakhsh (Khanshini) executed in Zahedan on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Toomaj Salehi released
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farkhondeh Allah Moradi executed in Isfahan on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Peyman Zarei executed in Shiraz on December 1
- NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 Political Prisoners Sentenced to Execution for PMOI Membership
Abolhassan Montazer, Pouya Ghobadi, Vahid Bani-Amrian, Babak Alipour, Ali Akbar Daneshvarkar, and Mohammad Taghavi
NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men executed in Karaj (Ghezel-Hesar) on November 30
Amir Moradi + 3 Unk.
NOVEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasrin Shakarami, mother of Nika Shakarami, sentenced to one year of imprisonment
NOVEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrab Abdullahzadeh sentenced to death
NOVEMBER 29, 2024SingaporeDEATH PENALTYSINGAPORE - Iranian-Singaporean Masoud Rahimi Mehrzad executed on November 29
Arrested at 20 for 31 grams of diamorphine
- NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Siavash Yari and Mohammad Ali Darkeh executed in Ardakan on November 28
NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Kamran Hemati executed in Arak on November 28
- NOVEMBER 28, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad-Ali Taheri executed in Qazvin on November 28
818 executions in Iran in 2024