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
- JUNE 19, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - An unidentified man was hanged in Raja’i Shahr Prison on June 19.
IRAN - An unidentified man was hanged in Raja’i Shahr Prison on June 19.
- JUNE 19, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Three prisoners (not identified) hanged at Tohid Prison in Bandar Abbas
IRAN - Three prisoners (not identified) hanged at Tohid Prison in Bandar Abbas
- JUNE 19, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - A woman, identified only as Fariba, would have been hanged on June 19 in Raja'i Shahr's prison.
IRAN - A woman, identified only as Fariba, would have been hanged on June 19 in Raja'i Shahr's prison. A woman, identified only as Fariba, would have been hanged on June 19 along with Fatemeh Nassiri. Fatemeh Nassiri was hanged in Raja'i Shahr's priso
- JUNE 15, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Shekaf hanged at Ahvaz’s central prison.
IRAN - Mohammad Shekaf hanged at Ahvaz’s central prison.
JUNE 14, 2019IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE PRISONERS HANGED IN KARAJ
According to IHR sources, on the morning of 12 June 2019 three prisoners were executed at Rajai-Shahr prison in the Iranian city of Karaj.
- JUNE 12, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Amir Tahmaseb, Samad Basideh and 1 other man hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison.
IRAN - Amir Tahmaseb, Samad Basideh and 1 other man hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison.
- JUNE 12, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - One prisoner (not identified) executed at Ardabil’s prison.
IRAN - One prisoner (not identified) executed at Ardabil’s prison.
- JUNE 10, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified prisoner hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison.
IRAN - Unidentified prisoner hanged at Rajai-Shahr prison.
- JUNE 9, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hashem Amiri hanged in the Prison of Gorgan
IRAN - Hashem Amiri hanged in the Prison of Gorgan
- JUNE 3, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seyyed Samad Enayati was hanged at Zanjan prison on April 30, 2019
IRAN - Seyyed Samad Enayati was hanged at Zanjan prison on April 30, 2019
- MAY 26, 2019IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC
Death-row prisoner Mehdi Cheraghi was hanged in public in Hamedan on the morning of 23 May 2019.
MAY 20, 2019IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: COURT UPHOLDS IRANIAN'S DEATH SENTENCE FOR KILLING U.S. WOMAN
Iran's state-owned newspaper on 18 May 2019 said the country's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for an Iranian man accused of murdering an American woman during a robbery.