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
- SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mehran Noormohammadi executed in Isfahan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehdi Aghosh executed in Zanjan on September 11
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 4 men and 1 woman executed in Zahedan on September 10
142nd woman to be executed in 9 years
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mansour Brahui executed in Birjand on September 10
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Allah Nour Salarzehi executed in Minab Prison on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ramezan Jafarzadeh and Mohammad Mohammadi-Ghaed executed in Shiraz on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed at an undisclosed prison on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ghafour Nejatpour executed in Gonbad Kavous on September 7
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed in Gohardasht on September 7
3 identified as Abolfazl Shahi, Mohammad Arab and Khosro Nourbakhsh
SEPTEMBER 7, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Yar Mohammad Eshaghzehi executed in Bandar Abbas on September 7
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unnamed man executed in Tabriz in the last days
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 7 men executed in Minab Prison on September 6
Abdolkhalegh Narouyi, Soleiman Narouyi, Abdolghafour Bahadorzadeh-Rigi, Abbas Nobakht, Mohammad Zobeiri, Mohammad Kazemi and Mohammadreza Hedayati