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
NOVEMBER 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Tadzari executed in Ardabil on November 2
- NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Shiraz on November 1
Amir Ghoncheh (Ghancheh), Jafar Tourjan (Turjan) and an unidentified man
NOVEMBER 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalal Mulaii executed in Zanjan on November 1
OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Boroujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
- OCTOBER 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified woman executed in Borujerd on October 27
202nd execution of women in Iran since 2007
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Alireza Janipour executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran Protests: At least 234 Including 29 Children Killed
Families and Doctors Pressured to Confirm False Scenarios
OCTOBER 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Valizadeh executed in Hamadan on October 25
OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 500 executed in Iran since the beginning of the year
No other country in the world carries out as many executions
- OCTOBER 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Esfandiari executed in Barazjan on October 24
OCTOBER 23, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sajjad Zainivandnejad executed in Borujerd on October 23
OCTOBER 22, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Three Baloch prisoners executed on 22 October
Mohammad Zarakzahi in Zabol, and Juma Gumshadzahi and Habil Shahnawazi in Zahedan