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
OCTOBER 8, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: MAN EXECUTED FOR DRUG OFFENCES
According to the Iranian state-run news agency Mehr, on the morning of October 8, a prisoner was executed at Qazvin Central Prison. This prisoner was sentenced to death for drug related charges.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: EXECUTION OF A PRISONER IN KERMAN
According to a report by ISNA and the deputy of Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office for Central Kerman Province, a prisoner who was charged with murder was hanged at Kerman prison.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: ONE PRISONER HANGED IN URMIA CENTRAL PRISON
According to a close source, on the morning the execution sentence of a prisoner who was charged with murder was carried out at Urmia Central Prison. The prisoner was identified as Javad Khayyeri from ward 15.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: 74-YEAR-OLD SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR HOSTING 'MIXED AND HALF-NAKED PARTIES'
Iran has sentenced a 74-year-old man to death for hosting “mixed and half-naked parties”, the head of Tehran’s judiciary said.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: EXECUTION OF A PRISONER IN URMIA
According to a close source, a prisoner, named Moslem Tamrkhani from ward 2 of mental ward, was executed at Urmia Central Prison.
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYMAN EXECUTED IN WESTERN IRAN OVER MURDER CHARGES
According to IRIB News Agency, on the morning of September 26 the execution of a prisoner who was charged with murder was carried out at Yasuj Central Prison.
- SEPTEMBER 20, 2017IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: AN UNIDENTIFIED MAN WAS HANGED IN PUBLIC ON MURDER CHARGES
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: TWO PRISONERS HANGED ON DRUG-RELATED CHARGES IN QAZVIN PRISON
Two prisoners were hanged on drug-related charges at Choubidar Prison of Qazvin. The prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in Qazvin prison a day before their execution.
SEPTEMBER 20, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN PUBLICLY HANGS MAN FOR RAPE, MURDER OF 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL
A man was hanged in front of cheering crowds in Iran after being convicted of the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl which had outraged the nation.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2017IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: EXECUTION OF TWO PRISONERS IN ARDEBIL
Shahin Parsajou, 23, and a 40-year-old man were executed on morning in Ardebil Prison.
- SEPTEMBER 18, 2017IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE PRISONERS EXECUTED IN TABRIZ CENTRAL PRISON
Three prisoners charged with murder were executed in the Tabriz Central Prison.
SEPTEMBER 17, 2017IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: PRISONER HANGED WHILE CROWD WATCHED
A prisoner by the name of Samir Deivband was hanged in public in the city of Ilam in front of a crowd of people.