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 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Monthly report: 73 executions in September
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Meysam Mozaffari executed in Kashan on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mostafa Kavandi and Ali Bahrami executed in Zanjan on October 1
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN- Akhtar Ghorbanloo executed in Ahar on October 1
251 women have been executed in Iran since 2007
OCTOBER 1, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafar Hivechi executed in Gonbad Kavous on October 1
- SEPTEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nesar Ahmad Rahmati executed in Mashhad on September 30
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Public hanging of two unnamed men
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The two men publicly executed on September 30 identified as Reza Rashno Sadeghi and Haji Kaboudvand
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mojtaba Zafarani executed in Birjand on September 29
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Arvin Ghahremani is at imminent risk of execution
A young Jewish man
- SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shahin Yusef Oghli executed in Tabriz on September 26
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Emanullah Nahtani executed in Zahedan on September 26