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
- APRIL 14, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN. PUBLIC EXECUTION
one man was hanged in public in the town of Khoramshahr, in the southwest Iranian province of Khuzestan, according to the official website of the Khuzestan judiciary.
APRIL 14, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE CONVICTED RAPISTS PUBLICLY HANGED
Three men were hanged in public in the northern Iranian city of Babolsar, reported
APRIL 13, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: ARMED ROBBER HANGED
Iran publicly hanged a man and amputated the limbs of another for armed robbery in
APRIL 11, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: THREE MEN HANGED IN ISFAHAN
Three men were hanged in the prison of Isfahan, in central Iran, reported the state run news agency Fars.
- APRIL 10, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
MPS CONCERNED OVER HANGING OF AFGHANS IN IRAN
Nur Akbari, a parliamentarian for Herat Province in Afghanistan, told parliament that he saw the bodies of 45 Afghans who were hanged in Iran and then sent to Afghanistan via Islam Qala port.
- APRIL 8, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: TWO MEN HANGED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PROVINCE OF KHUZESTAN
two men were hanged in public in the towns of Behbehan and Shadegan, in the southwest Iranian
APRIL 8, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: FIVE DRUG TRAFFICKERS HANGED
Five people were hanged in Mashad (northeastern Iran) according to the reports.
- APRIL 8, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: THREE PEOPLE HANGED IN TAIBAD
Three people were hanged in the prison of Taibad (Taybad) northeastern Iran, reported the
- APRIL 2, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN: KURDISH MOTHER AND HER CHILDREN SENTENCED TO DEATH
to the court in Mahabad in the Iranian Kurdish province of Urmiyeh, Caziye Dervis Zade and her
- MARCH 22, 2010AfghanistanDEATH PENALTY
AFGHANISTAN: OUTCRY IN KABUL OVER AFGHANS ON DEATH ROW IN IRAN
a delegation of Afghan lawmakers including Abdul Sattar Khwasi, first secretary of the lower house of parliament, returned from Iran with news that three thousand Afghanis have been sentenced to death there for various crimes
MARCH 22, 2010IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN: AFGHANI MINOR ON DEATH ROW
it was reported that Jandarshah Nabizada, 16, from Afghanistan's northern Takhar Province
- MARCH 20, 2010IranDEATH PENALTY
CALLS TO CANCEL DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST IRANIAN KURDISH ACTIVIST
Falak al-Din Kaka Yi, a former Iraqi Kurdistan minister...