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 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - At least 458 people killed in the ongoing nationwide protests
Including 63 children and 29 women
DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Qom on December 7
586 executions since the beginning of 2022
- DECEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Baratali Sheikhalizadeh executed in Karaj on December 7
DECEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nasser Omarzahi and Alireza Naroouie executed in Zahedan on December 5
- DECEMBER 5, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Death sentences for protesters
DECEMBER 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Four men executed for 'intelligence cooperation' with Israel
DECEMBER 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Hassani Maram executed in Yasui on December 4
DECEMBER 4, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Gholam Rasoul Mazarzehi and Anoushirvan Omarzehi executed in Zahedan on December 4
DECEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Woman, Mouloud Molazadeh, executed in Isfahan on December 3
DECEMBER 3, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Zakaria Rigi and Hojjat Saif Panah executed in Shiraz on December 3
- DECEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Majid Mehdipour and Massoud Efati executed in Rasht on December 1
DECEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Amanullah Rakhshani executed in Sabzevar on December 1
565 executions since the beginning of the year