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
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Reza Me'raji e Nemat Valipour Executed on July 31
In Shiraz and Sabzevar
JULY 31, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Payam Nouri executed in Ardabil on July 31
- JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Omid Ebrahimi and Salar Nasiri executed in Urmia on June 30
JULY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ayub Mirzaei executed on July 30 in Dizelabad Prison
JULY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Saeed Shah Bakhsh and Ziaullah Brahui executed in Damghan on July 27
JULY 28, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Morteza Falah-Delavar executed in Rasht on July 28
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Soheila Abedi executed in Sanandaj on July 27
139th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Faranak Beheshti was executed in Urmia on July 27
138th woman since 2013
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran cuts off man’s fingers for theft
8 others at risk of amputation
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Sanandaj on July 27
Payam Yazdani, Heyva Ahmadi and Abdollah Rahimi
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammadreza Arjmandi executed in Bam on July 27
JULY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Senobar Jalali executed in Rajai-Shahr Prison on July 27
A female Afghan national