Iran
2026
- 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 21, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man, Majid Mosleh, was hanged at Kashan Central Prison on July 21.
IRAN - A man, Majid Mosleh, was hanged at Kashan Central Prison on July 21.
JULY 19, 2019IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: WOMAN HANGED IN MAHABAD PRISON FOR MURDER
A Kurdish woman named Maliheh Salehian was executed in the central prison of Mahabad on July 16, 2019.
- JULY 18, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man, identified as Asif Khani, was hanged on July 18.
IRAN - A man, identified as Asif Khani, was hanged on July 18.
- JULY 18, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - An unidentified man was hanged on July 18.
IRAN - An unidentified man was hanged on July 18.
JULY 18, 2019IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: 90TH WOMAN EXECUTED DURING ROUHANI’S TERM
A woman, Zahra Safari Moghaddam, was hanged on 17 July 2019, in the Prison of Noshahr.
- JULY 17, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Zahra Safari Moghaddam, was hanged on July 17, 2019, in the Prison of Noshahr.
IRAN - A woman, Zahra Safari Moghaddam, was hanged on July 17, 2019, in the Prison of Noshahr.
- JULY 17, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Moharram Nemati and Asgar (Akbar) Bartar were hanged at Urmia prison on July 17.
IRAN - Moharram Nemati and Asgar (Akbar) Bartar were hanged at Urmia prison on July 17.
- JULY 17, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man, not identified, was hanged in Mahshahr on July 17
IRAN - A man, not identified, was hanged in Mahshahr on July 17
- JULY 17, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Lavashak, Yousef Gholizadeh, Hadi Asef and Akbar Sabbaghzadeh executed at Rajai-Shahr prison on July 17.
IRAN - Ali Lavashak, Yousef Gholizadeh, Hadi Asef and Akbar Sabbaghzadeh executed at Rajai-Shahr prison on July 17.
- JULY 16, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A man, not identified, was hanged in public in the city of Khandab on July 16.
IRAN - A man, not identified, was hanged in public in the city of Khandab on July 16.
- JULY 16, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, Maliheh Salehian, was executed in the prison of Mahabad on July 16
IRAN - A woman, Maliheh Salehian, was executed in the prison of Mahabad on July 16
JULY 16, 2019IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FOUR HANGED AT URMIA PRISON FOR MURDER
Himan Bonavand, Jafar Mohammadi, Mohammad Aref Najafian, and Mahmoud Khaledi were executed at Urmia Prison on 15 July 2019.