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 12, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Marziyeh “Sevda” Ebrahimi Shamsabadi sentenced to death
A blogger and political prisoner
SEPTEMBER 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 3 men executed in Isfahan on September 9
Mohammad Yousef Issazahi, Shahrokh Pouresmaeili, and Hossein Ghasemzadeh
- SEPTEMBER 9, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Neirang Hanged in Yazd on September 9
SEPTEMBER 8, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Ezzat Asgari Khalilshahr executed in Behshahr on September 8
SEPTEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 1 woman, 2 men executed in Mashhad on September 6
Fatemeh Jahangard, Mehrdad Mokhtari, and Mohammadreza Mohammadparast
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Seyed Rasoul Davari executed in Mashhad on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 6, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Rasoul Davari hanged in Mashhad on September 6
- SEPTEMBER 5, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Reza Salimi Hanged in Semnan on September 5
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Aziz Roshanayi executed in Shiraz on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Mashhad on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Haji-Hassani executed in Gorgan on September 2
- SEPTEMBER 2, 2026IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Yaser Momeni + 1 executed in Shiraz on September 2