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 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 6 men executed in various prisons on December 29
Soheil Bakhtiari, Sobhan Safizadeh, Amir Mahdi Navabi, Sina Nadari, Marvan Emadabadi, Yaser Khatibi
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 4 men executed on December 29
Shoja Asgari, Heshmat Fallahi + 2
DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qasem Amini executed in Sanandaj on December 29
- DECEMBER 29, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmad Nadi executed in Bukan on December 29
DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Bismullah Tajik executed in Bandar Abbas on December 28
At least 85 Afghan nationals executed in Iran since the beginning of 2025
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 8 men executed on December 28
Ali Safar Sepahvand, Mostafa Mehrjoo, Moein Hassanzadeh, Jamshid Akbari, Jafar Najafi, Mousa Rahimi-Rad, Azizali Kolkhani + 1
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Younes Afshari executed in Hamedan on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Joveyani executed in Ardabil on December 28
- DECEMBER 28, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Hossein Dadvar and Sajad Shokri hanged in Kashan on December 28
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 9 men executed on December 27
Khalil Nouri, Ahmadali Safari, Sirus Karami, Rahim Khodaparast, Milad Nejati, Abolfazl Enhesari, Ahmadreza Esfahani, Nariman Souri, Vihan Shah-Mohammadi
- DECEMBER 27, 2025IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mostafa Mehrjou and Ahmad Ali Saffari executed on December 27