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
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Asghar Samiei and Tahmaseb Kavousi executed in Zanjan on May 6
229 executions since the beginning of the year
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Salahedin Majidi (Dodkanlu) and Abdollah Khan Mohammadi executed in Salmas on May 6
MAY 6, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - EU condemns execution of Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Chaab
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faramarz Shakhsi executed in Urmia on May 5
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Names of 4 men executed in Khorramabad on May 5
Shakhsi, Mahmoudyar, Hanifi and Teymuri
MAY 5, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Teimouri executed in Urmia on May 5
- MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Habibullah Faghir Dadzehi executed in Isfahan on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nour-Ahmad Zavarzahi executed in Mashhad on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamed Mousavi executed in Ardabil on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 2 men executed in Qezelhesar prison, in Karaj, on May 4
Mohammad Ali Bani Ebrahimi and Mehdi Farrokhi
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hamid Emamizadeh executed in Khorramabad on May 4
MAY 4, 2023IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalaladdin Rahimian-Azar executed in Rasht on May 4