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
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 7 men executed on December 31
Karamali Khani, Ehsan Dehqanpanah, Mohsen Jadidi, Manouchehr Niazi, Mehran Hosseini, Keramat Safari, Moslem Rafiinia
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - IHR report on widespread and systematic drug executions
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed on December 31
Samad Azizi, Niazali Yari, Sohbat Fathi, Meysam Naseri, Amir Jafari-Rad, Erfan Sheikh Eslami + 3
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed on December 31
Ahad Mirzaei, Hanif Mohammadi, Yasin Azimi, Abbas Gholipour
- DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Karamali Khani and Niazali Faryadi hanged in Kashmar on December 31
DECEMBER 31, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - NCRI Year End Report: More than 2,200 executions in 2025
An Unprecedented High in Khamenei’s 37-Year Criminal Rule
DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 9 men executed in various prisons on December 30
Sajjad Veysi, Ali Akbar Barzegar, Peyman Zamani, Yahya Panahi Rad, Amin Khosroabadi, Mahmoud Zarei, Khodarahm Ahmadi, Ali Mohammad Dastar, Mansour Rigi
DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Report on 3rd day of protests
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Farid Norizad executed in Quchan on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Shayan Karami executed in Behbahan on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Unidentified man executed in Rasht on December 30
- DECEMBER 30, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hojjat Amini-Zadeh executed in Shahrekord on December 30